It's been a long time since I've written anything other than an email at work, meeting notes, or a couple words in a search bar. I talk a lot throughout the day, but I've never felt comfortable putting any of my words down on paper (I got a beautiful moleskin notebook a few years back that is now sitting dusty on my bookshelf with 99% of the pages blank) or as pixels on a screen (I'm contributing to that big empty sea of Twitter users who posted once or twice and never posted again, realizing that 140 characters is both way too many and way too few to actually say anything - unless you have a gift for being succinct, like Elizabeth Warren or Kanye West)
This hasn't really changed now; I'm still not comfortable writing anything, even if I'm the only person who will end up seeing it. Something changes, between saying words and writing, that makes someone feel incredibly self-conscious. Do I sound stupid and pretentious saying this? Is that really the best way to put it?
Probably not, but I don't get many opportunities to embarrass myself in front of others unless I walk into a meeting unprepared, and that's more for lack of preparedness than quality of execution.
Posts will be far between (don't give up on me!) and hopefully not few (I'll try my best not to forget this password like I forgot Twitter's) but maybe I"ll end up writing, saying what I think, and embarrass myself a little along the way.
Happy reading!
This hasn't really changed now; I'm still not comfortable writing anything, even if I'm the only person who will end up seeing it. Something changes, between saying words and writing, that makes someone feel incredibly self-conscious. Do I sound stupid and pretentious saying this? Is that really the best way to put it?
Probably not, but I don't get many opportunities to embarrass myself in front of others unless I walk into a meeting unprepared, and that's more for lack of preparedness than quality of execution.
Posts will be far between (don't give up on me!) and hopefully not few (I'll try my best not to forget this password like I forgot Twitter's) but maybe I"ll end up writing, saying what I think, and embarrass myself a little along the way.
Happy reading!
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