“I think I’ve had it.”
I said this to myself six months ago, as I was trimming my RSS subscriptions. Why do many blogs echo each other’s content? What is the difference between “5 Ways to Use Twitter for Business” and “How to Use Twitter to Promote Your Business”? More importantly, why do these two articles [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Writing’
Content Inbreeding: Why We Should Make New Connections
Perfection is a Complicated Journey
I just saw Leonard Bernstein’s Omnibus lecture on Beethoven’s Symphony no. 5 in C minor, Op. 67 (listen to it here). The lecture was very moving, to say the least. Bernstein took Beethoven’s initial rejected drafts of the symphony and played them, mistakes and all, commenting on the probable reasons why Beethoven discarded certain notes [...]
Exercises in Failure (Part 2): Let them trash your work
I had a professor in one of my painting classes who always gave everyone the highest mark possible. From the struggling students to the almost-pros, our grades were almost exactly the same - 100/100.
Of course, chronic absentees were another question - but the lowest they’d get was 80%. This made everyone happy as it made [...]
