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What I don’t like about other things

by Bill on July 3, 2010

I’m being diplomatic when I write that I don’t like other things. The truth is that I hate other things. They just get in the way! What are other things? That’s easy: they’re all the things you have to do when what you really want to do is something else. They’re things like your job, [...]

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Books from my night table

by Bill on June 12, 2010

I like books; I like to read. Over at Thoughtwrestling, we’ve had a week of book suggestions and/or reviews from the various contributors. I made mention a few days ago about a book I’m currently re-reading called Exuberance. I also wrote a review of it. Today it occurred to me it would be interesting to [...]

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Publish and flourish: cause and effect

by Bill on May 25, 2010

The final lesson I take from the story of Scheherazade’s telling of The One Thousand and One Nights is that you can change the dictum “publish or perish” to “publish and flourish.” As John Barth points out in Getting Oriented, the relationship that develops between Scheherazade and the king Shahryar is productive in more ways [...]

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Lose the model: everything is a story

by Bill on May 8, 2010

Creative people start out with a model in their heads of how they will be creative. It’s a template of how their creativity will manifest itself. One of the most important steps they make in their development is losing that model – throwing it aside. Of course, that leaves a vacuum and a vacuum wants [...]

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Publish or perish: the lessons of Scheherazade

by Bill on May 5, 2010

Scheherazade told one thousand and one stories over one thousand and one nights for good reason – to stay alive. Her chief lesson is simple: publish or perish. Actually, in her case, it was also publish and perish – maybe. It wasn’t enough for her to simply tell a tale. It had to be good. [...]

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Dead reckoning and getting unstuck

by Bill on May 4, 2010

Sometimes to go forward we need to go back. It’s a cliché, but to know where we’re headed we need to know where we are. To know where we are we need to know where we’ve been. In The Friday Book by John Barth I came upon something I had forgotten but strikes me as [...]

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Recognizing voice recognition

by Bill on May 3, 2010

A bit late perhaps, I have finally seen the value to me of voice recognition software. It has its obvious value to those with various disabilities but it also has value to those who do not. Basically, until now I had been stuck in the rut of thinking simply in terms of using it to [...]

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