Category: Notes
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For want of a hero, 2012 box office revenue was lost
I recently heard it argued that movie attendance is down not only because of the economy, but because of the absence of admirable heroes in film. Then I saw Screen Rant’s story about how ticket sales are the lowest they’ve been since tracking started in 1993. The only saving graces for the box office, Screen…
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Professionality
My wife and I are very tired, because of how life is. Consequently, when I started to type a business email last night, and she had some suggestions for the content, I went along with her dictation. Here was our finished draft: Peggi, No problem! If you can keep working on it tomorrow, no problem,…
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People Aren’t Products: a love letter to my millennial generation
If you’re a professional, your service is a product. Go ahead and sell that. You need to, in order to stay alive. But if you have ever looked at yourself in the mirror and asked, without irony, “What’s my personal brand?†then stop—you’re at the edge of a cliff. The cliff is too high for…
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We’re back!
See, what pained me about the previous post was that I love my host, and they’ve been great for years. So I was profoundly bummed that they’d let me down so badly. However, they made good — my site is back up and good as ever, through none of my own doing. Thank you, nameless…
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My webhost erased my redesign
Please excuse the sorry state of this blog while I deal with some technical challenges … my webhost had a massive crash and deleted all the recent work I did to redesign this site, so the poor design you see here is a temporary mishmash of old code and new style settings. I’ll be re-re-designing…