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Publish and you may perish anyway

by Bill on May 10, 2010

I heard a loud voice, it said a few words. It said, “You gotta take a chance and you gotta pay, boy. You cannot win if you do not play.” — Steve Forbert – Just because you get something out there into the world, it doesn’t follow that anyone will want it. That’s the discouraging [...]

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Seth Godin’s clarion call: a review of Linchpin

by Bill on April 5, 2010

I have finally finished Linchpin: Are You Indispensible?, Seth Godin’s most recent book, and I liked it a lot. How could I not? It got my brain working overtime thinking about this and that and everything in between. I recommend it to others for several reasons: 1) to see the work you do in a [...]

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Respecting the work

by Bill on February 12, 2010

Work is necessary in order to be complete. We tend to think of work only in terms of reward – an income – that allows us to fulfill other of life’s necessities and, if we can, enjoy our lives more fully with some of its luxuries. But work itself is a necessity and for that [...]

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The morality of free: ‘Let them eat cake!’

by Bill on July 5, 2009

We’re only in it for the money – Frank Zappa Chris Anderson has a new book out July 7th and that appears to have resuscitated the question of “free” as it applies to digital stuff, like news and other content (what use to be known as literature, pop culture, art, music and so on). The [...]

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Next step: Outsourced markets?

by Bill on December 10, 2008

When just about everything is outsourced, what happens? It strikes me that in the market doing the outsourcing (i.e., North America) relative incomes go down because jobs vanish. And then consumer spending goes down. And revenue streams dry up for business. And business starts looking for new, more vibrant markets. If that is correct, then [...]

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Maybe you shouldn’t write for a living

by Bill on October 24, 2008

At this moment, the world is obsessed with the perceived financial calamity that keeps sending everything down, down, down … except, perhaps, consumer prices. There’s hand wringing, hair rending, tears a plenty and profanities shouted from rooftops. As a Simple Plan song (called Untitled) says, “How could this happen to me?” Actually, it’s happening to [...]

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Work: Some ill-considered comments

by Bill on July 20, 2008

Many people suffer from physical and/or psychological problems because of work. These problems occur because they worry about work. It’s understandable. No work? No payday. No payday? No home. No recreational drugs. No betting on NFL games. You can see why people might worry. It’s important to work in order to keep the daily steamboat [...]

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