David Wells isn't me. He's a "digital marketing strategist, blogger, podcaster and psuedodesigner". He's also got a lot more followers than me on Twitter.
Motivated, I'm sure, by the fact that we share the same first and last name, he kindly "tweeted" my blog. And whilst my meagre 16 followers does not compare to his muscular 2,000 odd, I feel I should return the favour. Here is a link to his website where he is a highly skilled digital marketing strategist.
There are a few David Wells' hanging around who've done much more impressive things than me. Wikipedia confirms that this David Wells is the most famous. He was a highly succesful pitcher who played for a variety of teams. In 1998 David Wells become only the 15th pitcher in MLB history to throw a perfect game.
He is impressive, and he flies the flag for good David Wells' all over the world.
Just like this one. He was an economist, but I don't know much about him. He was a close friend of 20th United States President James Garfield, though, who opposed slavery. Good man.
But this David Wells. He's let us down. He bismirches the good name of David Wells. He is a peddler of astrology bullshit. I have no respect for him.
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Thursday, 7 October 2010
Thursday, 12 August 2010
Me; me, me.
Self deprecation, as far as I can see, is pretty much a pre-requisite for being a decent human being. There are few things worse in the world than people obsessed with how amazing they are, and how they can do no wrong.
I bring this up because I feel like self-importance is something that makes the world a worse place.
You can look at this at a very low level, such as someone pulling out rashly in a 4x4 (it's always a 4x4) making you slow down, and therefore everyone behind you slow down. They decided that them getting into the road 10 seconds quicker was more important than road safety and just general comfort of other people.
You can also look at it on a very high level, such as when a big business owner decides that it is important that he can make more money somewhere else, than it is to keep a less profitable aspect of the company in employment.
It's like people buying 10 tickets for a gig that is gonna sell-out, and selling on 8 of them at extortionate prices. See in this instance it was more important for that person to make some money than it was for 8 people to get tickets they wanted for the actual price.
Self-importance and selfishness seem to be very common.
And if there is one thing worth hating, I think it's that.
I bring this up because I feel like self-importance is something that makes the world a worse place.
You can look at this at a very low level, such as someone pulling out rashly in a 4x4 (it's always a 4x4) making you slow down, and therefore everyone behind you slow down. They decided that them getting into the road 10 seconds quicker was more important than road safety and just general comfort of other people.
You can also look at it on a very high level, such as when a big business owner decides that it is important that he can make more money somewhere else, than it is to keep a less profitable aspect of the company in employment.
It's like people buying 10 tickets for a gig that is gonna sell-out, and selling on 8 of them at extortionate prices. See in this instance it was more important for that person to make some money than it was for 8 people to get tickets they wanted for the actual price.
Self-importance and selfishness seem to be very common.
And if there is one thing worth hating, I think it's that.
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