"Again and again I therefore admonish my students in Europe and America: Don't aim at success - the more you aim at it and make it a target, the more you are going to miss it. For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue, and it only does so as the unintended side effect of one's personal dedication to a cause greater than...
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Spring break - my sixth grader's home for eleven days straight. He's really loud. Hard to think, hard to write, hard to do anything when he's home all day every day. Might take a road trip down to San Diego or up to Pismo Beach over the weekend with him. Exciting stuff; might be attaching an actor to a black comedy I'm trying to package....
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2010 03-27 :
I like Truthout. I always have. But I have been growing increasingly annoyed with their never-ending money grovel. As they put it:
Internet users ... expect everything to be free. Unfortunately we're a small nonprofit organization and although we run on a lean budget, our work costs real money.
Its probably true; Internet users do kind of expect Internet content to be...
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I like Truthout. I always have. But I have been growing increasingly annoyed with their never-ending money grovel. As they put it:
Internet users ... expect everything to be free. Unfortunately we're a small nonprofit organization and although we run on a lean budget, our work costs real money.
Its probably true; Internet users do kind of expect Internet content to be...
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If a blog fell in the SG forest, but nobody read it, would it even exist?