I’ve been listening to Daniel Pink’s book Drive today. I “read” the Audible version of it months ago, but I wanted to read it again. I think the man knows what he’s talking about. I think anyone who is in any position to manage people needs to read it for the words of wisdom on [...]

I promised myself I was going to do the 750words.com September challenge. That means I promised myself I would write 750 words a day every day during the month of September. This seems particularly foolish right now. I don’t have enough time to do everything I’m supposed to do in a day. Why would I [...]

I write likeJ. K. Rowling I Write Like by Mémoires, Mac journal software. Analyze your writing! Because I’m nothing if not obsessive, I kept running random entries from my blog through the I Write Like site, and I kept getting Stephen King and H.P. Lovecraft. Once I got Vladamir Nabokov. I don’t quite know what [...]

I write likeStephen King I Write Like by Mémoires, Mac journal software. Analyze your writing! According to I Write Like… That’s scary in an almost thrilling way. I used the blog post “You Can’t Go Home Again” for my analysis. It’s about a high school reunion. I can understand why that might be associated with [...]

Cheating at blogging, on a personal blog, is like cheating at solitaire. It can be done, but why bother? I have no idea why, yet I confess to having done it. I wouldn’t dream of cheating against a person, but sometimes I do move cards around just to keep the game going if nothing is [...]