Category: Thinking
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Remembering Jack Ramsay
My dad died a week ago. We had a complicated relationship. What can I say about him? He was a mysterious man. I have few specifics. What I have are some details that paint a gauzy picture of whom I understand him to be, or to have been. I know that his childhood was fraught. That…
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Finding the Good in 2016
2016 was a tough year. I broke my leg. My basement flooded. Rather than dwell on the bad, I took the start of 2017 to think about the things I enjoyed and be thankful for those experiences. The Felske Files: when the Phillies were good, there was literally a bracket-full of Phillies blogs competing for…
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#PublishADraft
Here’s a little secret to kickstart your personal blog: publish a draft. Surely, you’ve been agonizing over some post for ages. It’s right there in Drafts. Pick one, clean it up a bit and publish. In fact, I published one last week. It was there the whole time! Stop being such a perfectionist. Let Twitter be…
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How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Playlist
When Music 2.0 first arrived on the scene, it treated users like data entry clerks. Sure, everyone dressed it up as “user-generated content,” but it all hinged on some motivated individual updating a database for a service that wasn’t paying them. Those services mostly died out, either because people lost interest or something newer and shinier…