Born Shouting

As a (very) amateur web publisher, I’m constantly struggling with time and my ability to provide both infrastructure (hosting, sites, templates…) & content, so it was a relief of sorts to read that I’m not the only one…

Content is an order of magnitude harder than technology with an order less upside; …. The main and perhaps only reason to do content should be the love of creating it.

http://venturebeat.com/2009/04/29/10-lessons-from-a-failed-startup/

That need to love the content that you write is an important one to me and chimes with the age old writers mantra of write about what you know about.

Dad and Tom (9 months) in the supermarket on a Friday night beer run, a stranger (middle aged man with his wife) comments in passing to Dad (with Tom starring from his perch in the shopping trolley):

I wish I had a mate like that.

One of the nicest things anyone has ever said to Dad.

Two peasants discuss the need to rebuild a boundary wall that lies between their properties:

“…my luck is such that no sooner would we complete the task than the sun would go black, with all the toil for naught.”

The first flourished his arms in derisive reject of the argument.

“This is a risk we must assume. Notice: I drink wine, though I may not live to become drunk. Does this deter me? No! I reject the future; I drink now, I become drunk as circumstances dictate.”

from The Eyes Of The Overworld - Jack Vance page 187.

…don’t let fear of the future hold you back…drink to it…

I enjoy a certain degree of irreverence to my superiors, keeps us all on our toes. I like this view of the class system from a character from the most recent work of one of my favourite authors…

Roundly insulting one’s superiors behind their backs was one of the perks of being an inferior…

Choubris, Matter, Iain M. Banks

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