If you want to keep stretching and improving, you’d better get comfortable with the discomfort of change. People have been saying that for decades, yet each time we successfully adjust to new business developments—or personal developments, for that matter—what’s the first thing we tend to want to do? If you’re like me, you probably take a deep breath, enjoy a few fleeting moments of self-congratulation, and whisper to yourself, “I’m sure glad that’s over.”
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But it’s never over, is it? Not really; at least, it’s not if you’re the kind of person who might read a column like this one, on a site like Quality Digest. Whether quality is your avocation, your job, or your passionate pursuit, you know that success means never accepting the status quo and never, ever thinking that you’re done improving. If you fall into that trap, you’re burying a kind of ordinance that will explode before you even remember it’s underfoot.
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CHANGE?????!!!!!!!!
” People are very open-minded about new things, as long as they’re exactly like the old ones.” » Charles F. Kettering
” If you want to make enemies, try to change something.” » Woodrow Wilson
” It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory.” » W. Edwards Deming
Seriously, I will be the first to admit that the daily blast may not get read for a day or so. But, I always find something of interest when I do finally get there, so I guess frequency of delivery does not bother me too much. I would, however, feel it appropriate that the Thursday delivery be "untouchable"... this is where I find out what will be happening on Friday's QDL, allowing me, if something is of greater than normal interest, to do my homework.
On the point of technology replacing writers, I would not worry for a very long time. An AI might make the writers research easier, but I can't see it replacing intuition, insight, or, especially, imagination.
A tad over two years ago, you had a column in a similar vein, where my reaction was that a computer could never write "Blazing Saddles". Later concluding, that it might write it, but never know if it was funny.
Good luck on your regeneration!
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