Author Archives: lara

I have recent­ly wast­ed two days on a not-so-good book. It’s not the 5 or so hours that I spent read­ing the not-so-good book that I regret. It’s the time I spent try­ing to decide what to write about the not-so-good book, indeed whether to write about it at all. Time spent read­ing (almost?) anything … 

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I will always be grate­ful to Annie Lamott for intro­duc­ing me to the con­cept of “Shitty First Drafts” in Bird by Bird. I am now begin­ning to under­stand that there is a sec­ond, equal­ly impor­tant, direc­tive: “Spell check it and pub­lish it.” Getting the draft out of my head is only a start­ing point. We perfectionists, … 

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We all know that a lit­tle knowl­edge is a dan­ger­ous thing. It’s also often exact­ly what is need­ed for the occa­sion. So here I am with a new web­site, a cou­ple of blogs to look after, and a image port­fo­lio to build for the DH. Problem is… the in-the-house IT guy does­n’t do web. Networking … 

Continue read­ing “A Little HTML is a Dangerous Thing and I Know Where to Get It”

Sometimes even the dullest of research projects brings a lit­tle snick­er. To wit, while cruis­ing the great gobi of amazon.com look­ing for chick­en cook­books (don’t ask) I found this lit­tle list. And now my day is all bet­ter. ‑mag­pie

Odd to me that I should dis­cov­er the ClueTrain Manifesto (I pre­fer to think of myself as fash­ion­ably late to the par­ty) in the same week that the lat­est of Wired mag­a­zine final­ly makes it to the top of the ought­ta read pile with it’s arti­cles about on-line open­ness. Including Clive Thompson’s The See-Through CEO … 

Continue read­ing “Wired Magazine, the Cluetrain, and Synchronicity”