Prove yourself to no one. Curry no one’s favor. Suck up to no one. Stand or fall on your own merit. Name drop no one. If you’re not worthy on your own, you won’t be worthy on someone’s shoulders. Be you at all times. This will not always be easy: relearn. Not everyone will like [...]
Archive for the ‘writing’ Category
A Small Update
I try to post when I have something genuinely substantive to write about. I’ve had a few topics floating around in my head, reminding me on occasion to write about them, but the inspiration has been elusive. Meanwhile, if you haven’t already, I suggest reading the first two installments of a series written by Avril [...]
Frantic is the New Calm
As pen-in-hand as I’ve been lately, I didn’t want you to think that I had necessarily fallen into writer’s slump yet again. The truth is that this past week in RL has been exceptionally chaotic, and has left me little time for anything other than putting out fires and vacuuming up flood waters – figuratively [...]
Marx Goes Off on a Lazy, Pseudo-Journalistic Hack
Second Life™ has now been a part of our global internet for seven years. It began in June 2003, and promised a new way for people to create, communicate and interact together – and for hundreds of thousands of people, it has delivered and continues to deliver on that promise. Corporations entered, hoping to exploit [...]