“We always call the authors we turn down,” my boss Jeevan told me, “Because form letters are so soul-crushing.” He gave a self-deprecatory chuckle. “Only, I’m too cowardly to turn them down myself. So I’m making you do it.”
My friend Morgon graduated a year ahead of me, and has suffered deeply from missing all his college friends. He has posted many notes on Facebook about how much he misses everybody, the sadness of us all moving in different directions. His most recent note made me really start to think. Why are we always…
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Because with web publishing, biographies aren’t just for celebrities anymore.
Blatant self-promotion, of course. I blame my hopelessly individualistic, navel-gazing culture. Blogging, vlogging, tweeting: the commotion never stops. Anything to prove we’re just as special as everyone else. In the famous words of DASH, from the animation movie The Incredibles, “Saying everyone is special, is just a way of saying no…
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