Four years of studying macroeconomic principles and advanced music theory and the guy wants to know about my P-Point skills. So tell me Sam, do you know PowerPoint? Oh yes, I give great PowerPoint. That was the centerpiece of the interview. I got my first job out of college because I knew PowerPoint. Except, wasn’t the reveal codes function in WordPerfect like a drug? Addicted was messing with the greatest in new software at the computer lab. Weren’t those hilarious? Watching my roommates spend more time and effort than it look to land a human on the moon squinting at black dot-matrix characters scroll like a NASA countdown across that tiny green box. I remember during my college days when the big new thing was that monstrous electronic typewriter. It does not emerge from software.Īgain, acknowledging that writing is a personal practice is critical because the art and practice of transferring ideas to tangible medium via automated word processing have changed over the years. My best writing does not come staring at a screen. These are where my best ideas get forged.
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