It doesn’t mean anything to Alexander that Alexandria is still named after him. He can’t feel anything. He’s dead. He has no idea that we still talk about him or that he may have been the greatest conqueror who ever lived. There isn’t much of a chance, however, that he could have missed out on the guilt of killing his closest friend after he’d had too much to drink. In fact, we know he didn’t.

A long time ago, I saw an interview with Metallica where one of the band members said that they’d never recorded a song and then not released it. I remember thinking “So that’s why you have so many bad songs.”

The last thing I am is a great writer. I’m still trying to find my voice. I want to get there though and I am starting to realize that it means writing more and hitting the publish button less.

My intern* came across a strategy that impressed me quite a bit. He went to edit a Wikipedia page for a book he’d liked and found that one didn’t exist. Before he created it, he emailed the author and asked if his publicist might have collected any press during its run that he’d be willing to share. Of course they did and this morning, he got a whole list of them along with a big thank you from the author.

In the process, he managed to 1) Show initiative 2) Make a connection with someone important 3) Acquire the materials to meaningfully participate within a community

THAT is how you build a new media resume.

*I’m still going through the applications. He was just the first one I connected with locally.