On communication, professional and otherwise.
by David Murray // Leave a Comment
You edit a publication for a medical institution, and you herald the pending publication of the latest issue thusly:
This issue is devoted to all aspects of colorectal cancer. If you'd like to receive a free subscription and be placed on our mailing list, send me a message with your name and address.
Whee!
by David Murray // Leave a Comment
I ran across an interview of Mark Twain by Rudyard Kipling, that contains this solid advice from Twain, on conscience:
Your conscience is a nuisance. A conscience is like a child. If you pet it and play with it and let it have everything that it wants, it becomes spoiled and intrudes on all your amusements and most of your griefs. Treat your conscience as you would treat anything else. When it is rebellious, spank it—be severe with it, argue with it, prevent it from coming to play with you at all hours, and you will secure a good conscience; that is to say, a properly trained one. A spoiled one simply destroys all the pleasure in life. I think I have reduced mine to order. At least, I haven't heard from it for some time.
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They came for the contact, they stayed for the relationships: Here's the second in my Chicago Tribune series on the (so-far undefeated) Chicago Force professional women's football team. The story, and the video below, focus on the veterans on the team, as they struggle through an unexpectedly difficult game against the Wisconsin Warriors.