@ColinTheMathmo@mathstodon.xyz
Post #2663085
2026-05-18 08:30 UTC
"Email is a wonderful thing for people whose role in life is to be on top of things. But not for me; my role is to be on the bottom of things. What I do takes long hours of studying and uninterruptible concentration." -- Donald Knuth
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@felipe@social.treehouse.systems 2026-05-18 08:37
@ColinTheMathmo@mathstodon.xyz thought that was going somewhere else
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@j_bertolotti@mathstodon.xyz 2026-05-18 08:41
@ColinTheMathmo@mathstodon.xyz Email is a wonderful thing if you don't want to be interrupted for a few hours. Just turn off all the notifications (or never turn them on in the first place) and don't read your emails until you are ready to do so.
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@robinhouston@mathstodon.xyz 2026-05-18 09:28
@ColinTheMathmo@mathstodon.xyz I suspect this is more aspirational than descriptive: Knuth appears to be an energetic email correspondent, though he uses a colleague's account to keep up the appearance that he doesn't use email.