Don’t “Swett” the small stuff

One of my friends added the following quote to her Facebook profile today and it got me thinking:
“If you do not feel yourself growing in your work and your life broadening and deepening, if your task is not a perpetual tonic to you, you have not found your place.”
Orison Swett Marden
How many people really can [...]

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“Die, PR, Die…”

Thanks to Gary Andrews (nice little mention in The Journalist this month, by the way!) I came across this post on the excellent blog by Charles Arthur of The Guardian, venting his frustration at the hapless PR person who called him with what they presumably thought was a bright idea (or maybe they thought it was [...]

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The Dark Side

This article in yesterday’s Media Guardian – Don’t Bite The Hand That Feeds You - had me agreeing and disagreeing in equal measures.
The author, the wonderfully named Damien McCrystal, managed to sum up some of my thoughts exactly. Writing of being “a hack” he said: “It was cool to tell people what you did for a living [...]

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