How Blogging Helps Your Career #12 – The Garden

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(The roundup for the “How Blogging Helps Your Career Series” is here)

Last week I wrote about how you could use your blog as a rough draft for your work.  It’s a pretty great way to try things out and find out what works.

The flip side of this is in that many cases your blog already has a lot of great material.  This of course,is because your awesome, or at least because I assume you are, run with it.

Think of all the material you made as part of regular blogging.  Think of the posts, analyses, and charts.  Think of what you can do with that.  Think for a minute about how much you may have forgotten, or how much you did.

You’re out there planting seeds all the time, almost haphazardly.  Any one of those can grow into a book or a class.  A lot of them could be bundled together in a publication.

Your blog is a garden.

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A Specific Pathology

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So, I’m still wrapping my mind around a man who figures criminalizing sex outside of marriage is OK.  I’m trying to imagine how he thinks that would work, or if it’d work in our society, or . . .

Well the truth is, people like him aren’t thinking.

There’s a strain of people who are absolutely obsessed with everyone else’s sex life.  They’re worried who you’re having it with, if you use contraception, if you’re gay or straight, and more.  They certainly go on about everyone else’s love lives over and over again, and are focused on regulating it, controlling it, and owning it.

I think it’s time to admit this.

These people have a sexual pathology.  They have a problem.  They have a disorder.

Their obsession with controlling other people’s sex lives is an obsession that clearly makes them unable to function effectively in society.  They must control and regulate everyone else, and thus bring conflict.  They show a truly unhealthy interest in other people’s lives that shows signs of obsessive behavior.  In several cases they show paranoia as they detail what others do and what’s wrong with them.

They shouldn’t be listened to.  They have problems.

And sadly, I’m not sure how sarcastic this post is, because look, something is wrong with these people.

– Steven Savage

Steven Savage is a Geek 2.0 writer, speaker, blogger, and job coach.  He blogs on careers at http://www.fantopro.com/, nerd and geek culture at http://www.nerdcaliber.com/, and does a site of creative tools at http://www.seventhsanctum.com/. He can be reached at https://www.stevensavage.com/.

Yeah, Yeah, I Couldn’t Resist

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Well, I had to post on the Sim City Launch Disaster.  I couldn’t resist.

I mean seriously, this was stupid.  The DRM concept is stupid.  The software-as-a-service model has merit, but not like this.  This just . . . happened.

Pretty much between this and the Deadspace Microtransactions I’ve lost about any interest in an EA game.

– Steven Savage

Steven Savage is a Geek 2.0 writer, speaker, blogger, and job coach.  He blogs on careers at http://www.fantopro.com/, nerd and geek culture at http://www.nerdcaliber.com/, and does a site of creative tools at http://www.seventhsanctum.com/. He can be reached at https://www.stevensavage.com/.