I’ll be leaving Knight Ridder Digital in just a few more days. It was an honor to work with so many passionate, talented individuals, and leaving a great team is always hard – but it’s time for a change. I’ll say more about that when I start 🙂
Category Archives: Friends, Family, Life
Where have I been?
You’ve probably noticed late responses to emails and a many less posts here the last week or so.
It’s time for a change. One I am looking forward to. That’s all I have to say for now.
Do What You Love
In 1960, a researcher interviewed 1500 business-school students and classified them in two categories: those who were in it for the money ? 1245 of them ? and those who were going to use the degree to do something they cared deeply about ? the other 255 people. Twenty years later, the researcher checked on the graduates and found that 101 of them were millionaires ? and all but one of those millionaires came from the 255 people who had pursued what they loved to do!
Now, you may think that your passion for Icelandic poetry of the baroque period, or butterfly collecting, or golf ? or social justice ? might consign you to a permanent separation between what you love and what you do for a living, but it isn’t necessarily so. Vladimir Nabokov, one of the greatest novelists of this centurey, was far more passionate about butterfly collecting than writing. His first college teaching job, in fact, was in lepidoptery. Research on more than 400,000 Americans over the past 40 years indicates that pursuing your passions ? even in small doses, here and there each day ? helps you make the most of your current capabilities and encourages you to develop new ones.
From The other 90% by Robert K. Cooper, Three Rivers Press 2001 and quoted directly from Bruce Eckel’s weblog. Looks like a book to buy 🙂
The EWD archive and Jeremy
Salon: GOTO considered joyful: “On his proto-blog archive, the words and spirit of the late computer scientist Edsger Dijkstra live on, inspiring new generations of geeks.”
Direct link to the archive: In Pursuit of Simplicity.
On the 7th ericalynn posted a tribute to a very close friend who died of an an aneurysm, suddenly, inexplicably. He was about to get married. He had just turned 30. He had just become a father.
This takes me back to one of the most touching tributes I’ve ever seen on the web: The Life of Jos Claerbout. 25 years old and judging from his site, had an impact on everyone around himself – by being a good soul.
Even the shortest of lives can leave us with mission and warm heart.
Who and how we touch one another is what lives on past us.
Congrats to two on not smoking
Dave Winer celebrates one year and Bill Lazar two. Congrats to you both. Here’s to better health and money to spend 🙂
Happy Father’s Day
I wanted to wish father’s out there a great day.
Did I ever mention…
That my boss has a weblog? And a ton of other things at his site as well.
Congratulations Bill and Vivian!
Fellow weblogger needs help
Go here for details on helping one of the best online writers keep her site alive.
Hey? Where Have I Been?
Playing and writing songs. That’s where. Lesson learned? D’Addario EXLs suck. Cheap, cheap, cheap guitar strings. They just don’t last.
For whatever reason, my guitar is helping to center me far more then my ravenous addiction to news feeds. I just gotta step away from the keyboard… if ya know what I mean.
Part of that has included digging thru old songs I no longer play, some for as much as ten years, and then freaking out. Where have I been for the past ten years? Getting my life together. It’s funny how old tunes can still be relevant. It’s funny how much, and how little, we change.
Speaking of guitar, thru GeoURL I found Ben Garvey. Great songs. Local acoustic rock. Gotta check him out.
Shannon Campbell earns the coolest girlfriend of the year award for buying her guy Seymor Duncan Humbuckers. Her great, great song, “Oblivion” was downloaded almost 2000 times last month.
And Mark’s The Phoenix Trap keeps on rocking. They make better use of MP3.com then almost anybody. Plenty of songs for you to dig there. They are being listed to on a whole bunch of MP3.com radio stations.