After reading the Neil Gabler piece, this line of George Eliot (caught by the excellent Ta-Nehisi Coates) grabbed me:

I at least have so much to do in unraveling certain human lots, and seeing how they were woven and interwoven, that all the light I can command must be concentrated on this particular web, and not dispersed over that tempting range of relevancies called the universe…. [I]f we did so, it is probable that our chat would be thin and eager, as if delivered from a campstool in a parrot-house.

It nicely captures my own feelings about the need to focus when working on this book. I can throw out this blog post because it's pretty likely that at some point I can recycle (or more accurately, quote) the Eliot in the book.

As I said at TedxYouth, distracted people can't change the world. Distracted people can't make sense of it, either.