Ben Casnocha: The Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
... a book: it sounds like paradise until you become familiar with how the industry works . My friend Penelope Trunk wrote a great post called 5 Reasons why you don't need to write a book . Many authors echo her advice. A similar dynamic holds in the speaking industry. To outsiders it sounds glamorous -- you get paid a bunch of money, flown first class to an exotic city, speak in front...
Being Amber Rhea (Free subscription) | 11/30/2008
... to get off on that tangent right now. Speaking of titles. (Well, I was in the first paragraph.) Penelope Trunk says it’s important to write good titles for your posts. Obviously I agree, for SEO purposes and such. But one thing I love about Penelope Trunk is that she acknowledges the rather simple, common-sense (or should be common sense) fact that everyone’s blog has...
Being Amber Rhea (Free subscription) | 11/25/2008
Valuable advice for bloggers (or anyone!) from Penelope Trunk, via Rachel on Tumblr: Stephane Grenier: Which book(s) would you recommend for new bloggers (these can range from marketing books, blogging books, etc)? Penelope Trunk: The Sensual Woman. I read it when I was a kid and I was trying to figure out what sex was. I didn’t [...]
The Irish Times (Free subscription) | 11/25/2008
... from all this is that you would be better off without children. Indeed, Boston Globe columnist Penelope Trunk has concluded just that, advising female readers of her Brazen Careerist blog to maximise their happiness by not having kids, keeping their careers and, if they are divorced, getting plastic surgery.I said above that this is to misunderstand the nature of happiness.Deep happiness,...
The Irish Times (Free subscription) | 11/25/2008
... from all this is that you would be better off without children. Indeed, Boston Globe columnist Penelope Trunk has concluded just that, advising female readers of her Brazen Careerist blog to maximise their happiness by not having kids, keeping their careers and, if they are divorced, getting plastic surgery.I said above that this is to misunderstand the nature of happiness.Deep happiness,...
