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		<title>Maintenance, our human flaw and a dreamed of plugin</title>
		<link>http://writelife.net/2011/08/26/maintenance-our-human-flaw-and-a-dreamed-of-plugin/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Aug 2011 18:26:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Wren</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#1080;&#1082;&#1086;&#1085;&#1080; &#1085;&#1072; &#1089;&#1074;&#1077;&#1090;&#1094;&#1080; &#8220;Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance.&#8221; &#8211; Kurt Vonnegut Today has driven home to me Kurt Vonnegut&#8217;s quote regarding maintenance. He is right. I&#8217;m guilty of that flaw too. Most of us are. We want to get on to the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Don&#8217;t have two Cinderellas in one story</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jun 2011 15:35:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Wren</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is about sports and stories – specifically, hockey and stories. So you’ve been warned. We’re down to Game 7 of the Stanley Cup Finals. That’s a big deal in Canada and, depending on who and where you are, it may be a big deal to you. Two teams are in it: the Vancouver Canucks [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My most popular posts in 2010</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Dec 2010 12:00:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Wren</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I took a look at my analytics to see what posts were the most popular here during the year. And I made a list of them. I find it interesting looking back at the past year to see that my focus on social media drooped a bit somewhere during the summer as my focus was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How Kurt Vonnegut defined social media:connection precedes communication*</title>
		<link>http://writelife.net/2010/02/26/how-kurt-vonnegut-defined-social-mediaconnection-precedes-communication/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Feb 2010 12:00:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Wren</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are loads of books and gazillions of web sites and blogs on social media. You could spend the rest of your life reading about it – the data, the theories, the what-have-you. But if you really want to understand social media you can cut to the chase and read just one guy: Kurt Vonnegut. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fifteen books that come to mind</title>
		<link>http://writelife.net/2009/08/10/fifteen-books-that-come-to-mind/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2009 16:34:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Wren</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I did one of those meme things on Facebook and thought, &#8220;Why not post them on the blog too?&#8221; The list is simply the fifteen books I&#8217;ve read that have stuck with me, which I take as the ones that immediately come to mind. Here they are: Dhalgren &#8211; Samuel R. Delany The Sot-weed Factor [...]]]></description>
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		<title>You don’t need an MBA, you need OCD</title>
		<link>http://writelife.net/2009/06/17/you-don%e2%80%99t-need-an-mba/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2009 14:48:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Wren</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance. – Kurt Vonnegut It amazes me that so many organizations don’t understand branding. They think branding is their logo, their TV ads, mailouts and handshakes for the cameras. Your brand is everything associated with you. Like the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Art, people and personal brands</title>
		<link>http://writelife.net/2009/04/05/art-people-and-personal-brands/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Apr 2009 13:12:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Wren</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[People are like art in a number of ways. I’m currently thinking of one way in particular. (Please forgive the pseudo-egghead moment and indulge me.) A work of art exists in three states simultaneously. What the artist perceives it to be What it objectively is What people other than the artist perceive it to be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kurt Vonnegut on books</title>
		<link>http://writelife.net/2008/07/19/kurt-vonnegut-on-books/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Jul 2008 15:10:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Wren</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From his book Timequake, Kurt Vonnegut on books: At the time of their invention, books were devices as crassly practical for storing or transmitting language, albeit fabricated from scarcely modified substances found in forest and field and animals, as the latest Silicon Valley miracles. But by accident, not by cunning calculation, books, because of their [...]]]></description>
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		<title>After 30 years: Kurt Vonnegut and Slapstick</title>
		<link>http://writelife.net/2006/07/15/after-30-years-kurt-vonnegut-and-slapstick/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Jul 2006 16:50:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Wren</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is an anniversary year. Mind you, every year is an anniversary year of something. Every day could be used to celebrate an event &#8212; public or private, births, deaths, weddings and so on. (Today, for example, The History Channel tells us, &#8220;The great Dutch master Rembrandt van Rijn is born in Leiden on July [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Impressions &#8211; who exactly are you?</title>
		<link>http://writelife.net/2005/06/26/impressions-%e2%80%93-who-exactly-are-you/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Jun 2005 11:51:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Wren</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the introduction to his novel Mother Night, Kurt Vonnegut says something to the effect of, &#8220;You are what you pretend to be. So you better pretend to be something good.&#8221; I was thinking about this as I read Creating a Positive Professional Image (which I found through What Do People REALLY Think? on the [...]]]></description>
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