This education has reduced us to a nation of morons; we were strangers to our own culture and camp followers of another culture, feeding on leavings and garbage... What about our own roots? ... I am up against the system, the whole method and approach of a system of education which makes us morons, cultural morons, but efficient clerks for all your business and administration offices.

Source: The English Teacher, chp 8, pg 467

Things like Posterous and Tumblr do make blogging look tempting. Especially when a large part of your blogging experience on Wordpress seems to consist of back-end management. In the last few years, blogging has graduated into a more social age.

As careers go, success simply means strapping on your wings, running really fast, and then leaping off the cliff when enough momentum has been gained. The timing decides everything. Jump too soon and you drop to your death. Jump too late and you have no strength left to flap your wings. It is a fine balance.

Things are not very different for a freelancer. He too straps on the same sort of wings and makes a similar run before making that very same leap. There is only one way in which he is different.

Before he jumps off the mountain, he has to build it.

One of the reasons I really like Quora is because it is NOT a conversation tool. There is a tendency is new media circles to deify the word "conversation". But I don't think talking for the sake of talking makes any sense. Making sense makes sense.

On Quora, there are no long drawn discussions (comments, thankfully, are hidden by default). There are only questions which you answer to the best of your ability and then you get the duck out of there. No justifying what you said, no explaining, no arguing. If people get what you said, they vote it up. If they don't think it's worth it, they ignore it. That's it.

From left: Me, dad, and grampa.