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In ATL for the Conference on Robot Learning, very tired after a long day, please enjoy this picture of a Page One from Cafe Intermezzo. Actually, today was a really good example of “being where you need to be” … I ran into a fair number of colleagues from Google and beyond just by being out on the town at the right time and the right place, and was also able to help out a fellow who seriously needed some food. And when the evening was ending … three more Google colleagues appeared on the street as I sat down for coffee.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I don’t actually believe we live in a simulation, or in the Secret, or whatever … but if you’re doing the right thing, I find that Providence tends to open the doors for you right when you need it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

-the Centaur<\/p>\n\n\n\n

P.S. Being in the right place DOESN’T mean you get all your nano wordcount done though. I am making progress on “Blessing of the Prism”, my Neurodiversiverse story, but on Dakota Frost #7 I found myself spending most of my writing time sorting chapters in the big manuscript into sections, as I realized that one of the ungainly sections I didn’t like was actually a coherent start for Dakota Frost #8. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

P.P.S. On my blogroll, I saw someone say, “no writing is wasted”, and in a sense the chapters I just saved are not wasted. In another, and I say this as a bloviating maximalist, a big part of writing is selection, and sometimes having too many versions of a thing can make it hard to pick the right one and move on. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Okay, really going to crash this time, peace out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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