by Bill on August 12, 2010
The last few weeks have been characterized by lots to do, a good deal of frustration and, most significantly and surprisingly, reassessment. In other words, I’m over-extended and not in a good way. I probably have twelve posts on twelve different topics that I have started over the last few weeks, none of which is [...]
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, [...]
Last week was less active here at Writelife because I was busy with, work that pays the bills lovely weather requiring me to do outdoor work Every so often, this happens! I haven’t been inactive, however. I actually got quite a bit of writing done for others and have several posts in the “half-finished” stage. [...]
For as long as the Internet has been around, two things have always been true: Everything is public Hardly anyone treats it that way We add encryption and passwords and all manner of security tools and processes, but still mistakes happen, sites get hacked, email intercepted, “Reply All” mistakenly hit. When it comes to the [...]
Allow me to explain what I’ve been doing here recently … A little while back I wrote the post Publish or perish: the lessons of Scheherazade in which I had a list of lessons I took from the framing story of The One Thousand and One Nights (the one that tells the story of how [...]
by Bill on April 16, 2010
Bear with me. This promises to be a chaotic ramble (very much resembling the week that is winding down) … I want to share a few links and possibly burble a bit. First of all, there is Thoughtwrestling, the blog focused on generating ideas, solving problems and finding solutions. To that end, Mark Dykeman provided [...]
Oh, don’t look baffled by the word. The internet — the world, for that matter — is made up of new words and phrases that try to communicate their intent in their name. This one, Thoughtwrestling, is a pretty good one I think. It communicates what the blog it names is about: wrestling with ideas. [...]