Our musical alphabet is poor and illogical.
Looking back on myself as a little kid, I see seeds of entrepreneurship.
I don't know if I would refer to myself as a local celebrity.
At one point, I was painting shells and selling them at gas stations for five cents. I was six years old or something.
If you write a post and put it on a blog, that's a historical document. If you change your template, then that entry looks completely different. It's the same words, but not the same meaning. This all depends on what historical questions that people will be asking and we can't know what they will want.
Web standards keep you out of the dustbin of history.
We are the market, we know what we want.
The mind, in short, works on the data it receives very much as the sculptor works on his block of stone.
It's a moral question.
A poem's essential discovery can happen at a single sitting. The cascade of discoveries in an essay, or even finding a question worth exploring in one, seems to need roughly the time it takes to plant and harvest a crop of bush beans.
Between 2001 and 2011, Brazil lifted 20 million people out of poverty and into its growing middle class, and in the last quarter of the twentieth century Botswana's gross domestic product per capita grew faster than that of any other country on the planet. The once-labeled 'Third World' is edging its way into the 'First World. '