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NY Times: Blogging Will Kill You

“I was a corporate lawyer and an entrepreneur, and I know about working all the time. But now, you’re always worried a big story is breaking in your e-mail, and if you wait an hour, you’ll miss it. Every morning when I wake up, the panic hits and I have to see my e-mail as soon as possible.”

Clearly I am far too slack a blogger. I pretty much never wake up with panic attacks about this blog, ever.

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