Comments on: Productivity and “The Perfect Apostrophe” http://briansawyer.net/2006/06/14/productivity-and-the-perfect-apostrophe/ Wed, 07 Oct 2009 16:24:15 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Editor/Author Relationship as Marx Brothers Routine « Brian Sawyer http://briansawyer.net/2006/06/14/productivity-and-the-perfect-apostrophe/#comment-11310 Editor/Author Relationship as Marx Brothers Routine « Brian Sawyer Fri, 25 Jan 2008 13:07:04 +0000 http://briansawyer.wordpress.com/2006/06/14/productivity-and-the-perfect-apostrophe/#comment-11310 [...] posted before about Merlin Mann’s description of our failed book project, in which he describes me as [...] [...] posted before about Merlin Mann’s description of our failed book project, in which he describes me as [...]

]]> By: Productivity and the Postmaster « Brian Sawyer http://briansawyer.net/2006/06/14/productivity-and-the-perfect-apostrophe/#comment-69 Productivity and the Postmaster « Brian Sawyer Tue, 17 Oct 2006 13:13:00 +0000 http://briansawyer.wordpress.com/2006/06/14/productivity-and-the-perfect-apostrophe/#comment-69 [...] Following up on Merlin Mann’s knee-slapping anecdote of Productivity and the “Perfect Apostrophy,” he recently alerted me to an interview he gave for the National Post, which contains this related nugget of a story about his ill-fated book on productivity: One of my favourite stories about that is I’m on my cellphone, walking down the street, talking to my co-author and we are saying, ‘The book! The book! This is terrible!’ And in my hand I’ve got a Netflix [mail-delivered DVD] and a copy of the autobiography of Benjamin Franklin. I’m going to the library and the mailbox,” he recalls, speaking even faster now. “I’m having this heated conversation and I drop my Netflix in the mailbox but then I realize it isn’t my Netflix I’ve put in the mailbox but the autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, which is funny if you know that not only is Benjamin Franklin the philosophical godfather of the life-hacks movement, but he was the first postmaster of the United States. So, I threw my library book in the mailbox. That is how my mind works. [...] [...] Following up on Merlin Mann’s knee-slapping anecdote of Productivity and the “Perfect Apostrophy,” he recently alerted me to an interview he gave for the National Post, which contains this related nugget of a story about his ill-fated book on productivity: One of my favourite stories about that is I’m on my cellphone, walking down the street, talking to my co-author and we are saying, ‘The book! The book! This is terrible!’ And in my hand I’ve got a Netflix [mail-delivered DVD] and a copy of the autobiography of Benjamin Franklin. I’m going to the library and the mailbox,” he recalls, speaking even faster now. “I’m having this heated conversation and I drop my Netflix in the mailbox but then I realize it isn’t my Netflix I’ve put in the mailbox but the autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, which is funny if you know that not only is Benjamin Franklin the philosophical godfather of the life-hacks movement, but he was the first postmaster of the United States. So, I threw my library book in the mailbox. That is how my mind works. [...]

]]> By: Terrie http://briansawyer.net/2006/06/14/productivity-and-the-perfect-apostrophe/#comment-60 Terrie Thu, 15 Jun 2006 14:00:00 +0000 http://briansawyer.wordpress.com/2006/06/14/productivity-and-the-perfect-apostrophe/#comment-60 Nice! Now I can feel better about the time I've spent on hacks books parodies; at least that project was "done" when the cover was finished and I didn't have to write anything to back it up! Nice!

Now I can feel better about the time I’ve spent on hacks books parodies; at least that project was “done” when the cover was finished and I didn’t have to write anything to back it up!

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