{"id":1681,"date":"2012-11-27T01:15:45","date_gmt":"2012-11-27T09:15:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cephas.net\/blog\/2012\/11\/27\/links-11-26-2012\/"},"modified":"2012-11-27T01:15:45","modified_gmt":"2012-11-27T09:15:45","slug":"links-11-26-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cephas.net\/blog\/2012\/11\/27\/links-11-26-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"Links: 11-26-2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/casnocha.com\/2012\/11\/bezoss-insistence-on-full-narrative-prose.html\">Bezos&#8217;s Insistence on Full Narrative Prose<\/a><br \/>      Quote: &quot;One of my favorite Joan Didion quotes is &ldquo;I don&rsquo;t know what I think until I try to write it down.&rdquo; Writing is thinking. A lot of busy people say they wish they had more time to &ldquo;think&rdquo; &mdash; to be proactively thoughtful rather than reactive. But &ldquo;thought time&rdquo; is a hard thing to actually schedule, let alone measure. Writing, on the other hand, is something you can schedule to do and then evaluate and measure the output (e.g. 700 words a day or a blog post a week). When someone tells me they don&rsquo;t do much writing anymore, I sometimes wonder, When do you think deep-ish thoughts? And how do you ever know how coherent your thoughts actually are?&quot;   Super interesting in light of the stuff that I just read about Winston Churchill, who was a prolific writer who, maybe not coincidentally, was also a deep thinker with a lot of focus. Makes you wonder which leads to which.<br \/>    (categories:  <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/ajohnson1200\/focus\">focus<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/ajohnson1200\/priorities\">priorities<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/ajohnson1200\/thinking\">thinking<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/ajohnson1200\/writing\">writing<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/ajohnson1200\/amazon\">amazon<\/a> )\n<p\/><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bezos&#8217;s Insistence on Full Narrative Prose Quote: &quot;One of my favorite Joan Didion quotes is &ldquo;I don&rsquo;t know what I think until I try to write it down.&rdquo; Writing is thinking. A lot of busy people say they wish they had more time to &ldquo;think&rdquo; &mdash; to be proactively thoughtful rather than reactive. But &ldquo;thought &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cephas.net\/blog\/2012\/11\/27\/links-11-26-2012\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Links: 11-26-2012<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cephas.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1681"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cephas.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cephas.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cephas.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cephas.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cephas.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1681\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cephas.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cephas.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cephas.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}