Posted in Blogs, Career, General, Writing on October 1st, 2006 No Comments »
Yes, I have not posted for a while. There are two reasons for this (somewhat connected). One, I’ve been very busy with work and with some personal changes that are currently in play. Two, I’ve been down east in Atlantic Canada.
I must admit, I was tipsy quite often while tooling around New Brunswick and Nova […]
Posted in Career, Web Writing, Work, Writing on March 4th, 2006 No Comments »
It always amazes me just how little actual writing I do in my career as a writer. This week was a good example.
I spent good deal of time editing, a lot of time on the phone and oodles of time managing e-mail. But the thing that most struck me was how much time I spent […]
Posted in Books, Business, Career, Work on March 28th, 2005 No Comments »
There’s a fascinating book by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi called Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience and it helps to explain why the more successful you become in today’s world of work, the more your work becomes a nightmare from which you wonder if you’ll ever wake up.
It relates, in part, to something Seth Godin wrote about […]
Posted in Career, Work, Writing on January 2nd, 2005 No Comments »
What I love about the Paddi Lund story (see Seth Godin’s blog, the post News from Australia) is the “why” of the change he made and what it led to. It was essentially about improving the quality of his life; it resulted in a degree of success I don’t think even he expected. It got […]
Posted in Career, Work, Writing on May 17th, 2004 No Comments »
There are writers among us but they are sometimes not easy to recognize.
Writing, often viewed as a profession of the lower orders, traditionally pays rather poorly. In order to escape this ghetto-ish trap, a writer will often call himself by some other term. Currently, in my present position, I am a communications analyst.
What is the […]
