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Each of us has a blog and we don’t realize it. It’s our LinkedIn presence.
That’s because each LinkedIn post is a blog post. And your LinkedIn account is your blog where all of your posts are housed.
LinkedIn has become a content hub over the past few years. It’s either your first or second Google search result which underscores its power. It’s where people go to find out information about you and it’s not just an online résumé anymore.
If you’re not using LinkedIn to post thought leadership and content that supports your brand and business, you’re not using it to its full potential.
It is free to do this, and you will reach a lot of potential clients, recruits, recruiters and referral sources.
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“It is perfectly true, as philosophers say, that life must be understood backwards. But they forget the other proposition, that it must be lived...
Simply put, most contemporary philosophy writing is just bad writing. This is not a new point. Bernard Williams memorably summarized the analytic style as “scientific reports badly translated from the Martian”. In her 2009 book How Professors Think, about interdisciplinary grant review panels, sociologist Michèle Lamont calls philosophy the “problem case” among humanities for appearing both unreadable and pointless to other academics. As Christine Korsgaard notes, in her Dewey Lecture at the Eastern APA earlier this year: “Many philosophers try to write in what you might call perfectly true sentences. A perfectly true sentence already contains all the qualifications it would need to make it perfectly true. It is unassailable. But it is often therefore unintelligible.”
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Elena Bulgakova preserved her late husband's manuscript for 20 years, retyped it, got it published first in translation in Soviet-occupied Estonia, then, in Russian, abroad. An uncensored version of the novel finally appeared in the USSR in 1973 — and Soviet readers couldn't quite make sense of it. - JSTOR Daily
An announcement from Iraq's Interior Ministry says that the painting, found in the possession of three suspected narcotics dealers, could be worth "millions of dollars." The statement did not say which painting it is or what condition it's in. - The National (Abu Dhabi)
