Another sort of new year's resolution I have is to waste less time at the computer. I like to tinker with software, and I find that even after I've completed the work I sat down to do, I'll futz around. I want to discover a more utilitarian attitude about the computer. What that boils down to in practice is that when I've finished, I need to Just Get Up out of my chair.

It's like when John Coltrane was saying to Miles that he had trouble ending his solos. Miles' reply was "Take ... the horn ... out of your mouth".