Miscellaneous Links Thursday - “It’ll have to do.”
Penelope Trunk a.k.a. the Brazen Careerist has a useful little essay on perfectionism up at Yahoo finance. Almost as interesting to me as the original piece is the response from the readership there. Two stars based on > 1000 votes?…
It’s reminiscent, to me, of the surprisingly hostile response that was generated a while back by Kathy Sierra’s "Angry/Negative People are bad for your brain" essay. I’ve had a lot of exposure to this kind of dynamic over the course of my life, yet for some reason I’m still frequently surprised by it.
I have no new, intelligent conclusions to share on this topic today - - I’m just thumbtacking the subject for future consideration. The old-perfectionist-me would never would have allowed himself to pubish a blog post without a proper conclusion… :-)
Also, just as an aside, that’s why this blog isn’t really "about" anything, and on a given day you’re every bit as likely to see a nonsensical one-off comment about Linkrot Pandas (that’s going to be the name of my new band, btw) as a thoughtful essay. I made a commitment to abandon perfectionism, at least with regard to personal publishing. As with many bad habits, the only really viable strategy (for me, anyway - I’m weak willed ;) was to go cold turkey.
I’ll completely understand if you don’t like it. Frankly, I’m not sure I do either… but it was the only way I could be sure that this would happen.
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I’m always a sucker for a good basketball analogy. "Get your fouls" from Redeye VC is a great one.
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Using blogs for alternative purposes/blog as information hub –> first known blog as vc pitch.
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Some miscellaneous lazyweb questions:
- Why does clicking on my blog name in Technorati here return their version of a 404?
- What’s a guy gotta do to get his website screencap updated? Alexa and Technorati both have pictures of the old godaddy parked domain page, rather than the live site.
- How can I configure Wordpress to automatically trackback ping Typepad blogs when I link to one in a post?
- Replacing TinyMCE (Wordpress’ default rich-text editor) with FCKEditor has admirably fixed the lion’s share of formatting problems I was experiencing, including allowing me to insert "unnecessary" whitespace/carriage returns to my heart’s content. Only one problem keeps me from recommending this to everyone using WP - - it doesn’t seem to work in Firefox 2 for Windows… at all. Further digging needed, this is YAP in the meantime (yet another placeholder ;-)