2 hours ago · Writing · 0 comments

Wow, so apparently people are interested in the writerdeck idea. Thanks everyone who shared my blog post or video over the last few days, it's meant a lot to me!There's no way I could read every comment, but I've read a bunch of them, and pulled out some of the most interesting questions to answer here in this follow-up post."Why did you spend so much time making a writerdeck instead of just writing?"I spent a grand total of 20 minutes setting up my writerdeck. It's a laptop I already owned, with a distro I'd already flashed to a USB stick. It's a few minutes spent, but it's paid out dividends; in the last couple of weeks I've had an amazing time writing scripts and future blog posts (including this one) without distractions. Right now I'm outside listening to the birds chirp - my favorite tweeting.One of the funniest comments on Hacker News was "I need to focus on writing so I spent a few days stripping down a Linux distro." Folks: this took me less than a half hour.Now, if I didn't…

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