Perhaps a system should be set up where collaborative filtering takes place based on what goes on with the mailing list. Readers could mark certain posts as important and then the most important posts get put into a summary? Can't be that hard to implement, all an editor would have to do is read over the most important posts and create a paragraph or two summary intro.
I think we should all be focusing on being able to work better instead of being able to work longer. I've been doing a lot of introspective thinking about how much I work vs. how much actually gets done. And really its only the last 4 hours before a deadline that the work gets done - regardless of how many all-nighters were pulled.
So while getting read of sleep deprivation effects might be nice, I really just need a drug that'll push me into the last-mile mindset and get me to actually do the amazing work that gets done under pressure. Caffeine and nicotine just don't cut it anymore.
Heck, like one of the replies to your post mentions, the C in this drug could stand for cocaine and it'd probably have the same effect if it WAS just cocaine, except maybe with the downside of addiction.
I agree with you that once the mainstream media is talking about something, its too late. I work for a news company, and we give away the news that customers usually pay for 3 minutes later for free to the general public. That's because in 3 minutes after some piece of news gets released, its pretty much useless to the investment community - everybody's acted on it already. That's why their stock is down $5 right now - this secondary IPO news took a chunk out of the share price. Oh, and take a peek at the public breaking news page that's 3 minutes delayed: http://www.tradethenews.com/breaking_news.asp?
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Perhaps a system should be set up where collaborative filtering takes place based on what goes on with the mailing list. Readers could mark certain posts as important and then the most important posts get put into a summary? Can't be that hard to implement, all an editor would have to do is read over the most important posts and create a paragraph or two summary intro.
I think we should all be focusing on being able to work better instead of being able to work longer. I've been doing a lot of introspective thinking about how much I work vs. how much actually gets done. And really its only the last 4 hours before a deadline that the work gets done - regardless of how many all-nighters were pulled.
So while getting read of sleep deprivation effects might be nice, I really just need a drug that'll push me into the last-mile mindset and get me to actually do the amazing work that gets done under pressure. Caffeine and nicotine just don't cut it anymore.
Heck, like one of the replies to your post mentions, the C in this drug could stand for cocaine and it'd probably have the same effect if it WAS just cocaine, except maybe with the downside of addiction.
I agree with you that once the mainstream media is talking about something, its too late. I work for a news company, and we give away the news that customers usually pay for 3 minutes later for free to the general public. That's because in 3 minutes after some piece of news gets released, its pretty much useless to the investment community - everybody's acted on it already. That's why their stock is down $5 right now - this secondary IPO news took a chunk out of the share price. Oh, and take a peek at the public breaking news page that's 3 minutes delayed: http://www.tradethenews.com/breaking_news.asp?