Before you ask, no, this won’t devolve into a rant about the “attention economy.” At least, I hope it won’t. Paying attention is a bit of a trigger for me these days. After being knocked off my motorcycle by an inattentive driver who ran a stop sign I started seeing more and more examples of…
Tag: Context
Writing Processes, Side Projects, and Time Sucks…Oh My!
Update: I started this draft as something to end ’22 with, and it ended up taking on a life of its own. Then my company had what’s euphemistically called a RIF, or Reduction In Force, and my team went from 6 to 2—me and the social media guy are the only ones left standing. So…
Know Your Why, Part I
If you don’t know why you’re doing what you’re doing—how can you counter someone who says you’re doing it wrong? My grandma used to say something that drove me, and the rest of the family, nuts. “You’re right, I can’t.” That is one of the most deceptively simple-sounding, yet incredibly complex and, the more you…
Freewill? Determinism? Entropy?
Quick heads up: this one got away from me, but I like the point I eventually get to, so I’m leaving it as is to give you an idea of how these things swirl around and eventually come out as written essays whether the words are in the right order or otherwise. “The ability to…
What’s the common denominator?
I’ve found myself using this expression a lot over the last two years. It generally pops up in a conversation when someone is moaning about how they were wronged over and over in relationships, personal or professional. Somehow, magically, it’s always somebody else who did the thing that caused the bad result. But what’s the…
“Quietly do the next and most necessary thing.” – Carl Jung
This line comes from a letter Jung wrote in response to a fan (psychologists have fans?!) who wrote in asking that most basic of questions—how to live her life. The culture around her told her to get married and do whatever her husband bade her do, and that didn’t sit right with her. The line…
Context Matters.
One of the things I find wandering across my consciousness is the importance of context. Ironically it’s been appearing across contexts. Let’s look at a couple of examples. First, at my last role as content writer for a B2B SaaS cybersecurity/authentication company, I was working on a whitepaper based on an SME (subject matter expert)…