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Engagement, authenticity, and corporate stage fright
Okay, here’s a fun little story that didn’t make it into my “Real Men Don’t Rehearse”: In the first two or three summers of my playing Boston Pops concerts, the politics, seniority and fate in general added up to my … Continue reading
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To err is human, to proofread is expensive and time consuming
I had a fairly interesting thing happened to me yesterday as a self publisher, and I thought I would indulge myself (and ask you to indulge me) as I tell you what happened. First of all, a few comments about … Continue reading
Posted in My Books, Stupidity Science
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Kindle, VHS, and Betamax: One Possible Future for E-Readers
There has been quite a lot of hubbub lately about e-books and the electronic readers such as Kindle, and the other proprietary readers offered by Barnes & Noble, Sony, Apple, and so on. As a self published author, I have … Continue reading
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Your Unique Powers of Perception
You have probably, at one time or another, encountered individuals with unique powers of perception. People’s perceptual abilities are often just as unique as their fingerprints. Just to give you one example, I have a sister who has perfect pitch. … Continue reading
Failure Does Not Exist
Being the #1 (self appointed) expert in the universe on Stupidity, I have of course dealt with failure in past books and blogs. But, since stupidity is of course infinite, I never stop discovering new realms of it, and recently … Continue reading
The Massive Economy of Imperfection Concealment
Well I am sitting here waiting to hear from the printer so I can see the proof of the cover of the 3rd edition of “Principles” and I thought, well, I can make productive use of my wait time by … Continue reading
Some oceanographers are less equal than others
So I was watching 60 Minutes last night and there was Robert Ballard chatting about finding the Titanic. He pointed out that everyone else was doing things the same old way (using sonic echo technology), even though repeated applications of … Continue reading
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Solving Problems is Not Recommended– A New Principle of Applied Stupidity
Have you ever gotten onto a plane and opened up the airline magazine, hoping to kill some time doing the crossword, only to find someone else has already done it? Annoying, wasn’t it? We tend to think of problems as … Continue reading
Why I don’t deal with discount book resellers
When I first self- published my book Real Men Don't Rehearse, I was of course very driven by the presumed glamour of having my book sold in major bookstores. So I climbed thru many a major hoop to make that … Continue reading
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overcoming failure is getting to be fashionable
it’s interesting how many twitter tweets there are these days re: webpages and blogs that talk about overcoming failure. There is a fairly common theme to these posts, which is “I never experienced failure before . . .” Well this … Continue reading
