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I actually do this once a years. Inspired by John Carmack. I leave my kids and wife at home—or wherever they want to spend that particular weekend—and lock myse
by surfsvammel 7y ago
I actually do this once a years. Inspired by John Carmack.
I leave my kids and wife at home—or wherever they want to spend that particular weekend—and lock myself into a hotel room. I bring food, my own coffee grinder and a laptop and just spend the whole weekend programming, playing chess, read or write.
It’s the best weekend of the year and I spend the rest of the year looking forward to it.
- pablasso 7y agoWhere can I read more about this Carmack?
- Sinidir 7y agoNot reading, but he just did a joe rogan podcast. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udlMSe5-zP8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udlMSe5-zP8
- GuiA 7y agoIf you can post on HN you can surely use Google/Wikipedia :) The particular anecdote GP is referring to is here though: https://m.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=2110408722526967&id=100006735798590 https://m.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=211040872252... HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16518726 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16518726
- cgag 7y agoHe did Joe Rogan's show a few days ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udlMSe5-zP8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udlMSe5-zP8 I've heard a lot of good about this book: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000FBFNL0 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000FBFNL0
- kryptonomist 7y agoAnd Bill Gates wrote the first code of the FAT system during a 5-day stay in a Albuquerque Hilton hotel.