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Ryan Sholin

Category: Ideas

  • Why Italy?

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    On Sunday, after bearing the brunt of an excited explanation of Italy’s glorious victory over England via penalties, including a stunning Panenka from Pirlo, my own wife turned around and asked me why I was rooting for the Azzurri. This was weird, because it’s her fault. (Hey, this is a blog post about soccer. If…

  • Channel switching

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    Not sure how much I have to say these days, as most of my media-thinking-and-writing happens in the office and not on this or any blog, but I’m going to make a run at switching back to WordPress from the Tumblr I’ve been barely touching. We’ll see. No promises.

  • The Weight

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    [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WmlUXsjSv8[/youtube]

  • My best unpublished drafts of 2011

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    The way things go with kids and life and work and all that these days, I’m not having any sort of big “this year I’m going to get back to blogging” feeling right about now. Too busy. Find me on Twitter. Maybe I’ll use Tumblr more. Maybe not. Which brings us to a list, not…

  • The blog post about that time I spent the week in the hospital and they took out part of my intestines

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    If we’re friends on Facebook, you’ve likely already pieced most of this together. If not… Last Friday night, I was slammed with stomach problems like I’d never experienced before, and by the time the #snowtober storm started on Saturday morning, I was on my way to the emergency room. First ever ambulance ride. A day…

  • 35

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    I accidentally filled out a marketing survey this morning and realized I had slipped into a new demographic. Ouch. Older.

  • Is Dan Sinker’s book making me angry?

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    Well, no, of course not. In fact, the Epic Quest makes me happy every time I pick it up. I’ve caught myself pages deep, on the couch with my four-year-old who is impatiently reminding me that she has a book of her own in mind, and hey, why is there a duck on your book,…

  • Revised branding

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    The deed is done. This blog, which has carried my name in its domain for more than six years, no longer has a title other than my name. For now. Until I change my mind. Or freak out about branding.

  • The snark of working in public

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    The art of working in public: In which Robin Sloan writes a great blog post about other people writing great blog posts. “I have two exemplary pieces of 21st-century writing that I want to share with you. Neither is hot off the CMSes; they’ve both aged just a little in their tabbed casks. They have…

  • Branding

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    I’m strongly leaning toward dropping the “Invisible Inkling” brand from this blog entirely, in an effort to appear moderately less pretentious. I am fully aware that using three adverbs in the previous sentence — and writing it at all, not to mention this one, makes it difficult to make the “less pretentious” argument with any…