Life of db
The little quips and musings that occur in the Life of Dylan Blanchard.
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Well the picture doesn’t lie. We can point fingers and call each other names, but at its core, I’ve simply read a shit ton over the course of the last three years.
And I like it.
I’m not much for the latest and greatest in pop culture, and you won’t find that I’ve subscribed to any gossip blogs (beyond Macrumors), but what you will find is a mix of personal blogs, corporate blogs and editorials centered around different business ideas and various areas of technology. As I sit and wonder how I’ve amassed such a large amount of read articles, and intuitively, invested so much time in such an undertaking, I can point to one reason:
My core belief that formal education is not enough, and does not prepare you to meet the needs of employers, the world, and more importantly, your own needs.
Your informal education deserves as much of an investment as your ‘formal’ education does (at least in the time department), and by zeroing in on a basketful of great websites and blogs that turn out content, that in return will expand your perspective is critical, and I’d argue is likely directly related to your success in whatever your ventures are.School sucks, knowledge doesn’t.
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Great article on the fictional and non-fictional divide. Ever since the beginning of time we’ve longed to classify every living thing, every material possession into some definable category.
Often when you talk to somebody and the topic of literature (or music) comes up, the conversation will inevitably turn to questions about what type of books you read, or what genre of music makes your heart sing.
Jonathan Fields has a better way of classifying:
Fiction, nonfiction…doesn’t really matter. When people ask what I write or read, I don’t have an answer. I read books that in some way leave me different than when I began.
You’ll most often find me reading a business book of one sort or another, but what is a business book? It’s most often an exploration into another field of study anyway! That’s why I chose business. There is no more interdisciplinary studying done than in the field of business.. But more importantly, every so often I read a fictional book that alters my perception, or influences my style of writing and I’m better off for it.
Perhaps we should just classify in terms of “Awesome” or “Shitty” books.
Let me read the Awesome books, you can read the non/fictional ones.
