M. R. Bailey

Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on. So keep looking until you find it. Don’t settle.

From remarks to graduates

Stanford University  2005

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Good Times

Just as when the IBM personal computer arrived (1981), Steve Jobs introduced the Macintosh with GUI (1984), the venerable Selectric and Selectric II became obsolete, and a universe of entrepreneurial and artistic opportunities opened to writers, the Kindle, Sony Readers, iRex, Lexcycle’s Stanza and other downloadable readers have opened doors to a new world of publishing possibilities. While the major players sort out the e-Publishing landscape, engineer the infrastructure, and build the new e-pub world, we writers are exploring, beta testing, and blazing new entrepreneurial paths … all while continuing to write, write, write. This is a good time to be a writer, don’t you think?

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Kindle UPDATE – Kindle vs. B&N Free eReader:  See David Pogue’s PERSONAL TECH column, “New Entry in E-Books a Paper Tiger,” in the August 6th edition of the New York Times.  Barnes & Noble’s new e-reader offers PC access to e-books.  The eReader tablet itself is promised for later.