I love Merlin Mann. Even though his signal to noise ratio often gets a bit low for me to tolerate, without fail he eventually comes up with a gem that makes me want to resubscribe to all his feeds.
Now that I’ve had it both ways, I can highly recommend choosing to make things you like with people you think are awesome. By comparison, the private consolations of doing otherwise turn out to be surprisingly modest.
Yes. Yes, indeed.
(I’m still not going to follow the guy on Twitter, though. The last time I tried it was like drinking from a fire hose.)
Thanks, Jake. I appreciate your saying that about my remark. It really is true. Can’t recommend it highly enough.
To your other point — and notwithstanding a months-long posting hiatus that’s earned my inbox an order of magnitude more criticism than praise — I regret having struck you as “noisy.”
Every day, we each do what we can with what we have. It’s just that we noisy types get heard more than we’d like. Even, apparently, when we aren’t saying anything.
Yr Firehose,
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Merlin,
Among certain of my friends I am the noisy one. It’s not so much a criticism of your output as it is saying that not all of it connects with me all of the time.
People say the same about me often. ;^)
We just say what ever we have to say and see if anyone cares to listen, eh?
Thanks for the reply at any rate.
- J