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Why I Am Optimistic About 2021
Jim Murray · I spent pretty much this entire year getting, being and recuperating from being quite ill. It was all hellish but I came out the other side of it feeling strangely optimistic. · One of the reasons I am optimistic is due to some of the new year’s decisions I have made along the wa ...
The Abe Lincoln Guide to Humour.
Robert Cormack · Tips from a president who was both funny and surprisingly inappropriate. · “A sense of humour is just common sense dancing.” Clive James · It’s hard to imagine the 16thPresident of the United States being humorous, but Lincoln was actually quite the joker. Even during the Civil W ...
Knock on wood...
Graham🐝 Edwards · There is something that comes with getting a song stuck in your head, which is to say that it mostly stays there until it's good and ready to move on — you find yourself humming and whistling to yourself (and others), listening to it and watching it endlessly on YouTube, and you ...
The Inefficiency of Words.
Robert Cormack · "Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often." Mark Twain · We all use inefficient words. I call them inefficient because they create more problems than they solve. One of worst is “robust.” For years “robust” referred to someone’s health or a food’s rich flavor or s ...
Why Lemmings Leap and Beagles Shouldn't Be Dissed.
Robert Cormack · “Whenever you find yourself on the side of majority, it is time to pause and reflect.” Mark Twain · It has been a week of strange invective. Some Medium writers are rising up against Ev Williams, seething over what they describe as “tactless and shameful usury of talent.” Seems E ...
A man who carries a cat by the tail...
Graham🐝 Edwards · "A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn no other way". · I read this the other day and smiled at the imagery it conjured up, as well as how it re-enforced Mark Twain as a master of the analogy. I will say up front I have not literally carried a cat by t ...
Statistical Thinking
CityVP Manjit · It is difficult enough to be bamboozled by statistics and left empty headed by statistical process, without realizing that the real value of statistics is to think statistically. Before I can even begin to think mathematically, I need to pursue how it is I am going to learn how ...
How to Not be Afraid of Ghosts
Paul "Pablo" Croubalian · I just read the stupidest post ever. No, not here on beBee. It was on a Big Name content marketing site. It was about ghosts. Not the undead type of ghosts, but the writer type of ghosts. It was about my kind of Ghost. It pissed me off. · It pissed me off enough to write this. · ...
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