Occam's RazR
communication. community. cognition.
Wisdom from Top to Bottom
May 17th
“A word to the wise is sufficient. For the rest, there is my foot and your behind.”
Handling the Truth
May 15th
“Those who can’t handle the truth are often just afraid of developing callouses.”
Welcome, Spin Sucks Readers
May 6th
Thanks for coming by, and following the deranged advice of Gini Dietrich, who had no business sending you here. My name is Ike, and I will be your curator today.
As I mention, I am going to be writing less here. But that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t visit or subscribe. I’ll still drop little gems from time to time.
Since you came over, though, I thought I’d leave you a list of things to check out, which stand a tiny chance of living up to Gini’s hype.
- The Field Guide to Social Media Weasels
- The Sub-Prime Primer
- Absolution
- Secure E-Mail for Kids
- Friending Strangers on Fakebook
- …and the sequel, The Cindy in Your Town
- How Not to Use Youtube
- The Turkeys on Your TV
- Destined to Obscurity
- A Load of Fertilizer
- The Flow of the First Mover
- When Your Friend Gets Hacked
- Divergence? Surely, You Can’t Be Serious
- Lessons From the Tin Man
…and a bunch of others. Really, I’ve probably left out a dozen or more that I really liked, but just didn’t remember.
If you have a favorite that wasn’t listed, shout it in the comments.
And if you want tiny little bites, check out the entire My Quotes category. Wisdom on Post-It Notes.
Thanks for coming by. Maybe I will get busy here again one day.
Four Years and Scattered Days
May 5th
I started Occam’s Razr during the New Years’ break of 2007. And I was fairly regular in writing (with the occasional hiatus) up to the start of 2011.
Four years of material, and I stand by every bit of it.
Listen to: Four Years and Scattered Days
In fact, I sometimes go back through the archives looking for one piece, and re-discover something else that I didn’t remember writing until that moment. But I remain proud of the words, and believe I have lived up to my charge of writing things that aren’t focused on the here and the now. More >
The Shirt Off Your Back
Apr 5th
Many of our linguistic idioms are grounded in something practical and tangible, even if the circumstances around them seem anachronistic.
Today, you’ll still hear references to people who are described as so generous they would “give you the shirt off their back,” even though we live in a society where true clotheslessness is not a pressing need.
However, I did find myself in need recently, and this is the story of just such a man.
Terrorized by a Seven-year-old
Mar 30th
Seven-year-olds have a way about them.
They’re just starting to get a sense of self-awareness — the realization they’re part of something larger.
They play nice with others only to the extent they have to. Bullies only remain bullies when they are significantly larger than any of the other kids on the block. If there’s no one around to bloody their noses, the largest of the seven-year-olds rule the playground — and they can make up their own rules as they go.
Seven-year-olds, as a rule, have very little natural skills with customer service.
(I’m talking about your baby, Mark Z. Your offspring is King of the Mountain, but doesn’t have good people skills.)
Listen to: Terrorized by a Seven-year-old More >
