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Learning Regular Expressions to Streamline Daily Writing Exercises
One of the key things about learning a craft and getting better at it is practice. Practice is how you learn to use the tools you have and how you find your own voice with them. It’s why the Leica Year or one camera/one lens are interesting exercises for photographers. But what about writing? Most…
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Build It and They Won’t Come Unless You’ve Marketed It
It’s a fallacy that I see played out over and over again. I’ve fallen for the seductive charms of “if you build it, they will come”1 more times than I care to admit. This is something that I should know intuitively by now. I’ve been that nerd saying that Apple is only popular because they…
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Photographs, Essays, and Fear
I think that I want to talk about fear today. I’ve been trying to write more, and share photographs, and every time I do, I feel a twinge of terror that whatever I’m going to write1 is terrible. I think that what I’m writing right now is terrible. My heart rate is through the roof,…
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CV, STARs, and (Personal) Sales Pitches
It seems to be job hunting season for my friends and family. And I’ve been helping them write and polish their resumes and curriculum vitae (CV). I often find myself repeating the same information – how to approach a job search, how to write a cover letter and a resume so that it helps you…
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What’s in a Name
"What’s in a name? That which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet;" William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet I’m sure that Juliet’s rose didn’t have to deal with government documents and social media services. 1 I want to say that I’ve been thinking a lot about names lately, but the…