On Words and Business

Thoughts on writing…

alley424 — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 18:14:30 +0000

“Habits in writing as in life are only useful if they are broken as soon as they cease to be advantageous.”

W. Somerset Maugham

Living the dream…

alley424 — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 12:48:26 +0000

For many freelancers, the dream is to have the freedom to work from far off, exotic locations.

While my travel life routinely find me working on the west coast instead of my home base here in the east coast, here’s a freelancer taking it to the next level. He’s been working remotely, traveling around the world for months now. And it’s working for him, so he shares some tips to help the rest of us make it work.

So…if you ever read an entry I posted at 4:00 a.m., stop to think: Am I in Boston and actually awake at 4:00 a.m. or am I in another time zone, living the dream.

Commenting on commenting…

alley424 — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 13:20:45 +0000

Lev Grossman’s column in this week’s Time magazine is all about commenting on blogs and giving people a voice. It applies less to business blogs than personal ones, but it’s still a great read. Especially for those of us who grew up in a world where there were no blogs, and for whom this commenting thing is a late-learned art.

“Maybe commenters are just on one side of a cultural disconnect between two incompatible ideas of what the social conventions of the Internet should be. One is based on the standards of real-world, offline politeness. The other is a kind of communal game in which whoever is cleverest and pushes the most buttons wins.”

Next up on the business book list…

alley424 — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 21:06:44 +0000

Life Entrepreneurs

A book about “ordinary people who integrate their life, work, and purpose through distinctively entrepreneurial behavior…”

I’m putting it on the top of my priority list. Although, to repeat something I heard recently, right now my priority list is all top, with nothin’ under it.

If you’ve read the book, let me know your thoughts…