Creative professionals are in a strange, unique and interesting position. We’re not plumbers or electricians who show up with parts and tools to fix your emergency. Nobody has a design or content emergency (not that they know of, anyway). How do you price a service with intangible value? What is your personal philosophy about money,…
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The 3rd 40: Day 27
It was a 100% work-free day (with the exception of the time I spent jotting down ideas into an email on my iPhone at the A’s game… yes, I have problems). Every Sunday I wake up with the intention of going to kickboxing at 9:00. The problem with that plan is that it interferes with…
Evolving Language
As I was reading this article about how half of the world’s languages are in danger of dying out, I started thinking about just how much the English language has changed and evolved, a language spoken by nearly half a billion people every day. I’m not talking about the changes since Shakespeare’s time, with phrases…
Another 40: Days 15-20
I never intended to post every day during this challenge, but here I am, wondering how six days managed to pass me by. The good news: I’ve worked out three times in six days. Two of the three days off were work-related and one was a planned rest day. I’ve cleared out my inbox so…
Another 40: Days 12-14
I’m scrambling to play catch-up. Work is all-out insane this week as all clients try to close everything out before the end of the year. The end of the year is Friday. Oh, sure, that’s only the 18th, but with people taking vacation during Christmas week and the week after, that only leaves a small…
Another 40: Days 10 and 11
Is it Friday already? Where did the week go? I went running yesterday morning. It was 38 degrees and cloudy, but I wanted to get out before the forecast hit: rain, rain, rain, rain and more rain. Unfortunately, the rain came earlier than I expected. I got soaked and raced for home, chilled to the…
Another 40: Days 5 and 6
The weekend comes in one consolidated package. Highlights: A Saturday morning pilates session that left me feeling beautifully stretched out on Saturday and ab-sore on Sunday. Stumbled across four decent $1 finds on the clearance rack at the used book store around the corner. A good phone conversation with my 91-year-old Nana. Made homemade meatballs…
Stan’s Leap
A couple of years ago, I edited an early version of Stan’s Leap, a novel by Tom Duerig. The book is finally available in print, and since my experience with it is several revisions removed from the final version, I’m looking forward to reading it in its final form. If you’ve read the book, let…
My Conflicted Relationship with Kindle
I said I wasn’t going to do it. I wasn’t going to make the leap to Kindle, no matter how many people raved about it. I was going to be a traditionalist, darn it, and I was going to read real books on real paper. But then they dropped the price to $299, and I…
Travel Reading
I’ve already read two books on this trip, and both are worth recommending. The first is Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen, by Christopher MacDougall. It takes everything that I thought I knew about running and tosses it out the window. The second is The…