How we work
We’re interested in the habits, rituals and small (and occasionally big) methods people and teams use to get their work done. And in the specific anecdotes and the way people describe their own relationship to their own work. Here’s a list of some stories and habits. Not sure it is actually useful for anything. Do any patterns emerge across stories, other than the obvious stories of super-focus, super-dedication?
These examples are mostly “names” because the list so far is mostly from published sources, but everyone’s stories and habits are interesting, so go ahead and add yours in the comments.
Source: rodcorp
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Muy bueno! Me encanto la categoria “how-we-work” de este sitio.
“Bradbury wrote The Fireman, an early version on Fahrenheit 451 in novella form, on a rented typewriter (at 10 cents per half hour) in the basement of the UCLA library, in nine days.”
y este!
Trollope the machine: Every day for years
“…he woke in darkness and wrote from 5:30 A.M. to 8:30 A.M., with
his watch in front of him. He required of himself two hundred and
fifty words every quarter of an hour. If he finished one novel before
eight-thirty, he took out a fresh piece of paper and started the next.
The writing session was followed, for a long stretch of time, by a day
job with the postal service. Plus, he said, he always hunted at least
twice a week. Under this regimen, he produced forty-nine novels in
thirty-five years. Having prospered so well, he urged his method on
all writers: ‘Let their work be to them as is his common work to the
common laborer. No gigantic efforts will then be necessary. He need
tie no wet towels round his brow, nor sit for thirty hours at his desk
without moving,—as men have sat, or said that they have sat.’ “
All I know that one can’t just force themselves to like the job they are doing. Doing what you like may not be the option for everybody.
I am 30 years old, and I have done more things for a living than I care to remember. Ultimately, I was always miserable.
I started to work for myself recently, and while the big bucks are yet to roll in, I feel better about what I am doing than ever before.
“In a world gone mad, only the lunatic are truly insane.”
- Homer Simpson