We love all of this piece…but glom the subtitle:
“(Hint: You Might Be a Bit of a Jerk)”
If you’re like us, that has to make you want to read on. So:

We love all of this piece…but glom the subtitle:
If you’re like us, that has to make you want to read on. So:

We’re not huge, rah! rah! types about much of anything, let alone TED Talks, but this one struck a sympathetic chord:
Or it is only individual notes that can be sympathetic?
We mean it.
You don’t doubt us, do you?


“Writing, at its best, is a lonely life. Organizations for writers palliate the writer’s loneliness but I doubt if they improve his writing. He grows in public stature as he sheds his loneliness and often his work deteriorates. For he does his work alone and if he is a good enough writer he must face eternity, or the lack of it, each day.”
Ernest Hemingway

…and comes up with some cool perspectives: