Tag: prolific nonense

When a Writer’s Not Writing

Still haven’t found what I’m looking for… Google…

I haven’t been as active on this blog as I would’ve wanted. It’s not like the well of has dried up… I’m still writing…

Two things to describe the last 3 years:
* Memos
* I’m writing in bullets

Technical communication is a challenging venue for someone prone to drifting and exploring en route from point a to point b, whereas memos are point a to point b travellers who used Waze to come up with the most effective path possible.

With tech writing on full throttle, I devoted what’s left of my keyboard

Teaching Cinderella and Spider-Man

Dan Aguilar, Spidey and Cindy
photo courtesy of reddit.com

Perhaps the most difficult role a parent has to do is to create an elaborate tent of myth to sustain the growth of your children’s imagination. Sure, I’d want to tell my kids the truth and teach them the value of being true and sincere with whatever and whoever they choose to be. But handling the truth about Santa, princesses, and heroes require, you know, kids’ gloves. Are they gonna be better off if we let them crash into the ground until they learn the concept of balance or are they gonna learn better with training wheels? The answer is much much more complex and if it’s gonna be aided only by odds (something like 80% of kids without training wheels perform better…) and not by something absolute, then it means you’d have to find things out for yourself and hope that the result followed the trend.