诗人何以能做出更好的搜索引擎.docVIP

诗人何以能做出更好的搜索引擎 　　“?歌能帮我们制造出更好的搜索引擎。”这是肯硕公司创始人之一丹尼尔?纳德勒（Daniel Nadler）的高见。早在哈佛读书时，这位科技奇才就曾拜在普利策得奖诗人乔丽?格雷厄姆门下……他说，每个清晨和周末都是留给诗歌创作的，不查邮件、不接电话甚至不照镜子，因为就想尝试一种最质朴的写作方式，即：驱除一切干扰，拥抱本我，吐露心声。 Daniel Nadler spends most of his waking hours running the technology start-up Kensho， which has become a darling of the financial industry， attracting big investments from Goldman Sachs and venture capitalists.1 　　But in the mornings and on weekends， Mr. Nadler， 33， writes poetry―an art he studied while at Harvard， where he was a student of the Pulitzer Prize2-winning poet Jorie Graham. Mr. Nadler’s first collection， “Lacunae： 100 Imagined Ancient Love Poems，” has been published by Farrar Straus and Giroux.3 　　Mr. Nadler may work with technology， but his book imagines a world before computers and telephones. The unnamed narrators of these love poems live in an unidentified place in a distant mythic past.4 Jonathan Galassi， Mr. Nadler’s editor at Farrar Straus， said he was drawn to the pared-down， direct nature of the work： “Not many poets today are bold enough to be this simple.”5 　　Mr. Nadler has developed some rather austere practices for separating his poetry from his job as an entrepreneur.6 When he is writing he doesn’t check his email， speak or even look in a mirror. 　　But he also says that his work at Kensho―on what is essentially a search engine for economic events and data―is deeply informed by his experience as a poet， and vice versa.7 　　We talked to Mr. Nadler about his habits， his day job and why poets can make better search engines. Below are edited excerpts8 from the conversation. 　　* When do you write your poetry？ 　　I write in the morning. 　　I make a habit of not looking at email and try to make it so I have a period of time in which whatever is going on in the world hasn’t arrived at the threshold of my consciousness yet.9 　　* I heard that you also avoid looking in mirrors. 　　I never look in a mirror until I am finished writing for the day. My own reflection in