Month: October 2008


Success in Life is like Spawning Salmon

Anyone who has fished salmon runs in a river (that would be me in Alaska) can really appreciate the meaning of intense dedication to a life goal. You see, millions of salmon enter the river to spawn, but very few make it. Before they even get to the river, they have to evade natural predators […]

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Over-Thinking Kills Me

I remember when I was in my early 20s and I used to frequent these waterfalls and tropical pools behind my house in Hilo, Hawaii. My friends and I would stand at the top of these cliffs overlooking the water and then jump off. Sometimes the height was over 40 feet. Many times I could […]

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A Little History on Wordful

Since for now I’m enjoying this loose, free flow writing, which is clearly not authoritative, I’d like to go into how Wordful evolved. Writing is my predilection, but I tried for years to avoid that calling out of insecurity and job security. I figured that writers were important but highly undervalued people. And once I […]

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Articles vs. Blog Posts: What’s it Going to Be?

I read a very interesting AlertBox article by Jakob Nielsen the other day entitled “Write Articles, Not Blog Postings.” While I tend to think that there is a gray area between what’s an article and what’s a blog post, Nielsen presents a valid point: there’s a limit to the value you can provide if the […]

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A Preview of this Site’s Categories

Before I begin, I’d like clarify that this website won’t be formally public until my design and WordPress integration are complete, which should be about next week (trust me it’s going to look totally different.) So if there are actually any readers out there, you’re viewing this site in pre-beta mode. But feel free to […]

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