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Hi everyone!
I've been slamming down on the accelerator this week and managed to write three stories and two comics. That's a lot for me. Let's hope I don't crash and burn ...
Enjoy!
:-)
7 Reasons Why Twitter Is So Great for Bloggers
It’s not just to “grow an audience”
If you’re a blogger and don’t see the value of Twitter, you’re using it wrong. I certainly was.
You see, for a long time I thought of Twitter as a place to get into virtual fistfights with strangers, doomscroll, and dump my links. But recently I had a revelation: there’s so much more to it. Even if we have mostly forgotten it, Twitter is actually a micro-blogging platform.
What does that mean? Well, in principle it just means that your “blog posts” are very short (280 characters at most). In practice, however, it means that Twitter is a Speedy Gonzalez version of blogging: pocket-sized, hyperactive, and quick-witted. And that has some kickass advantages over the slow, lumbering, and laborious macro-blogging we usually do.
What the Heck Is Prosopagnosia?
A weird neurological disorder I thought I have
When I first heard of prosopagnosia, I was convinced I had it.
You see, I’ve spent most of my life living in the same town — a small Spanish town of about 14,000 souls sitting at the bottom of a valley near the Mediterranean Sea and that’s famous for its nipple oranges. I’ve lived here almost continuously since I was twelve. I went to school here, puked out my first bottle of beer here, lost my virginity here, became an adult here, met my wife here, and right now I’m writing these words here.
Like any small town that’s been around since the Middle Ages, you can get pretty much anywhere by foot. So I don’t own a car and when I have to go somewhere, I just walk. But something strange keeps happening to me.
I walk down a street thinking If the meat of stressed animals tastes bad, then humans must taste horrible — or something along those lines — when suddenly I hear someone exclaim “Hey, David! How are you?”
Why Follow Your Passion Is Stupid Advice
Passion is grown, not found
Many of us feel like complete idiots looking for our passion. We spend years searching all over the place, but without ever finding it.
“Goddamnit! Where the heck is it? Mom?! Mooooooom?!”
No answer.
“Ugh… I guess I have to find it myself. But it has to be somewhere… I mean, everyone’s got one, right? So where the f*ck is mine? Did I misplace it? Maybe it’s hiding under the couch. Everything valuable seems to end up there…”
But you see, your passion is not …
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Thanks for reading!
— David