I’ve been using Twitter dilligently over the past couple days, and it’s been fun, but not too fun. Every once in a while I glance over at it to see what people are saying, inadvertently learning quite a bit about what’s hot on the Internet. I witness people taking meals, getting sick, going out, coming back from meetings, grumbling about what they’re working on, and exulting about things that are going well. It’s pretty astonishing at how well this plugs a certain void in my daily routine, without disrupting it too much.

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I’m rather sad to report that my post-SXSW attempts to get back to the early schedule have fallen flat. Or rather, I’ve fallen flat on my face. It’s classic purge-and-binge behavior: for two weeks, I could do it, but without the followup two weeks to hammer it in, I was perhaps doomed to bounce back.

However, the time hasn’t been entirely wasted. I’ve had a taste of what it’s like to wake up early in the morning, and know what it can be like. The question is how badly I want it. That is, what are the benefits? And are my goals still in alignment with them?

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