Steve’s Update 11/16/2015

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I hope everyone is well after the terrible news last week in Paris, Beruit, and more.  I hope you and yours are well.

I’ve wanted to say something about these terrible attacks, but I’ve found they’ve been said best by my eloquent friend Serdar.  We cannot become what we hate.

With that, a few quick updates.  I’m going to keep it tight due to the tragedy.

  • Way With Worlds should be back from the pre-readers in two weeks.  I’ll be doing a deep-dive edit on it for concept and clarity – and dividing it into two books.  I’m honestly not sure if this’ll be done in December or in January.
  • We’ve written the first chapter of the Sailor Moon book – and it went through some revisions of focus as we did it.  Even though we analyzed each person after their interview, analyzing them together and exploring the major themes takes a lot of work.  The book may still surprise us – well, surprise us more.
  • My upcoming book on creativity – No title yet, and it’s taking longer, but it’s definitely worth it.  It’s going to be a way to identify your creative methods – then try others.
  • Next Generator – Is going to be reality TV shows, but as that one is taking longer as I’m trying some new analysis techniques (that also involve me writing up my findings), I may do an intermediate totally-for-fun crazy one.  You’ve been warned 😉

I hope you’re all well.  Let me know how you’re doing.

  • Steve

Link Roundup 11/13/2015

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Returning to my link roundups of links relevant to career, life, and more.

Russian Metrojet flight 9268 does look like a victim of a bomb.  What makes me wonder is why no one took credit.  I am to say the least not trusting Russia or Putin, so wonder what the global impact of this is and who was trying to do what with this bombing – and that of course is if this IS a bomb and not just a misreading.

The University of Santa Barbara digitized 10,000 old wax cylinders.  A wonderful piece of historic preservation and civic geekery.

I’m skeptical of the ad-driven economy idea.  Now that the Economist employed anti-anti-adware service Pagefair, and found it was used to spread Malware, I’m more cynical.  On the other hand this probably creates a few new career possibilities in security, ads, analysis, and snarky news commentary.

The new EC policies on Hyperlinks could make you liable for what you link to.  Needless to say they’re awful and we need to keep an eye on this.

Oh and the “Snooper” policy in the UK is going to raise internet costs.

 

  • Steve