Thanks for the post! If you asked me to list all the things I might see today, “scuba diving cupcake” wouldn’t show up in a million years. I was wondering if it was a man or woman, and clicked through the link. It was amusing to see both the caption, “right next to my ‘disco stick’” and the critique in the comments: “I think it’s more of a snorkeling cupcake.”

It may not be the best strategy for SEO, but as career advice I’ve always thought highly of a post Scott Adams did in 2007:

If you want an average successful life, it doesn’t take much planning. Just stay out of trouble, go to school, and apply for jobs you might like. But if you want something

extraordinary, you have two paths:

1. Become the best at one specific thing.

2. Become very good (top 25%) at two or more things.

My interpretation is that the learning curves for a skill make it relatively easy to improve to the 25th percentile or higher, but very difficult to advance to the 99th without extraordinary skill or practice. By achieving the 25th percentile in two or more skills, though, the combination becomes a rare and valuable resource.

The original post is here:

http://dilbertblog.typepad.com/the_dilbert_blog/2007/07/career-advice.html

So maybe your speaker wouldn’t disagree with this, but I think focusing on option 1 as the only route to success is a mistake.

Most people I talked to just thought the poor photo quality was due to the printer registry. Remember Circleville printer history.

DED