Right Brain Lefty

Better (a corollary)

mrdarcymurphy:

langer:

And we all need to do better. We need to be more discriminating with regard to what we post to our Facebook feeds or share on Twitter or link to on our blogs. We need to ask ourselves: why am I sharing this? Who wrote this? Why is his or her voice authoritative? What is the value of this piece? Is this really thought provoking or is it just another distraction?

We’re all tastemakers now, and people are relying on our taste. The quality of our discourse relies on our taste. We need to have better taste.

I’m reminded of an old proverb:

“A wise man speaks because he has something to say. A fool speaks because he has to say something.”

OK, confession - I have over 200 RSS feeds I’m reading & I tweet and tumble more than i blog because I can put a lot of “content” out there.  I read a lot of spam, I post a lot of spam, I eat.. well I won’t go there.

I’d like to make a commitment to posting quality over quantity.  But that just won’t happen; I’m not that good.  Quality comes like a happy accident, rising through the piles of crap that gets tried, tested, and often fails.

I think hemingway has a quote where admits that he produces 1000 pieces of shit before creating one masterpiece. Now if Hemingway said that… then we’re all doomed.