Some words of wisdom.
My kid came home a few years ago rhapsodizing about some John Green book, probably one that was made into a movie, and I told her, oh yeah, he works at Mental Floss. She was gobsmacked. I never could get her to read Mental Floss, or any other site I worked for. Yeah, I worked with Green, Ransom Riggs, Ken Jennings, and a few other people you might know, I told her, and she was finally impressed with what I did for a living. I didn't bother to tell her that work was all remote, and I'd never met any of them. But bragging about such things implies a comparison- how come I never wrote a book or got famous? That would have bothered me ten years ago, but now I am trying to gradually retire.
Friday, May 06, 2022
John Green on Banned Books and Empathy
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5 comments:
Retire *and* write a book. If it is YA or non-fiction, I have connections.
Great video! I like how he thinks!
Agree with Green also.
And thank my lucky stars Miss C is retiring s~l~o~w~l~y... a sudden stop would be catastrophic for the mental health of we minions.
Bruce, this blog is not a job; it's a hobby. Retirement shouldn't affect it.
But if you retire you might spend a lot of time in Monte Carlo, Paris, Bangkok, Hong Kong, or Hawaii and not have time to do all the work this requires.
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