I’m trying to figure out how people would start careers without set degrees. As I said, my Journalism degree only helped me to get in the doors of my first couple of jobs, and while it continued to form the foundation of my work, it was my accumulative experience that carried me forward. I’m not sure how I would have gotten here without it.

I’d like to add that I believe that email has also dulled how I write and receive information. I once found it very easy to express myself, but then it became more difficult when email entered the picture. Email is very similar to the web in the way that you described it: there is a certain feeling of informality and impermanence, yet at the same…

I wanted to get in touch with you because I might be interested in starting a similar resource for writers, citizen journalists, and media creators. Do you have any advice or additional thoughts you can offer?

I have been reading news in summary services such as Ozy and Skimmit which give you only the basic information you need to know. If there was a service that forced you to write concisely (somewhere between Medium and Twitter) then perhaps a daily deliver-at-noon messaging service would have real high value.

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It might be the tryptophan talking, but recently I had an idea for a new way to encourage collaboration…

Midland Competition

Last weekend, our daughter Kayla competed in a skating competition at the ice arena in Midland, Michigan. Here is how my…

Lately, I can definitely relate to this. It gets worse when I’ve tried to conform, but change when I’m encourage to embrace my differences, only to be later criticized for not following the rules. It’s as if the world can’t make up its mind. Or, perhaps the cosmos is playing some kind of trick on me. I often believe the latter.

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Thanksgiving and Birthdays celebrated successfully

This year we celebrated Thanksgiving and the thirteenth birthdays of my son, Josh, and my niece, Amelea. So, instead of everyone traveling to our house at the beginning of November, we traveled to my in-laws’ house for a Thanksgiving meal…

After thinking about this a little more and reading other comments, I had a few more ideas/thoughts:

I think that the messages should be prioritized based on the scale of low, high, and urgent. The sender chooses the priority. But, as they are writing their message they can check the recipient’s inbox to see how many…

Josh’s friends singing him “Happy Birthday” for his 13th Birthday