“Talk is cheap. Show me the code.” Linus Torvalds
Each day I run at least 21 experiments.
Flannery O’Connor sat at her desk from nine to noon every morning. Many of those mornings she wrote nothing and counted it a good day. Maya Angelou rented a hotel room and wrote from seven to two. Both ran on the clock.
Stephen King counts two thousand words a day. Graham Greene sets five hundred and stops mid-sentence when he hits it.
I count my experiments the same way, by what I finish.
I once counted my launches by what I finished, too. One a day, every day. Seventeen days in I burned out and produced nothing for a week or two. So I went back to timing them, just to start again. A habit you keep beats one you quit.
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What do you measure by the clock that you could measure by output?
