Since this is the first one of these I have put together, I constantly find myself tooling around with the format. For example, at first I figured I would just keep writing until I got tired or my pen ran out of ink.

If history has taught me anything though it’s that working without some kind of constraint isn’t really working at all. People need to give themselves some broad limitations to work within in order to have the structure they need to do something interesting, rather than speed skating towards whatever shiny new object happens to pop up in front of them.

The constraint I choose for this project was time.

I am giving myself ten days and a loose topic framework (information) and seeing what ends up coming out of it.

This realization has been really good for me. Without it I figure I would have devoted way too much time discussing the relative merits of Barnes and Noble versus Borders.