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An old photo editor of mine always said you’re only as good as your last shot. She stole the quote but that didn’t make it any less true. McPhee is distilling that that down. That last shot (or story) is done. Finished with a capital ‘F.’ There’s no going back. The work is out there in the world. You can’t reshoot yesterday’s front page.

Now it’s time to start over.

Kill the perfect. Slay the angels. Fuck the gods.

You’re human. You’ll get it wrong. Everybody gets it wrong.

But getting it wrong is the only way you get close to getting it right. §

Chuck Wendig nails it. This goes hand-in-hand with Anne Lamont’s ideas about shitty first drafts. Don’t let the perfect be the enemy of your good.

Killed by spam. But not just closing, everything will be deleted.

That didn’t take long. This will be Apple’s legacy.

With a $35 pocket computer, you can read SSL (🔒) traffic from a Superfish infected Lenovo laptop.

From Amazon’s point of view, I could see this as a “why wouldn’t we” situation. They can squeeze both ends of the pipeline (customers and authors) now that the ebook gold rush is mostly over.

I already yell at my computers. I don’t want to yell at them just to make them work.

So well said. If Facebook, Twitter, and Tumblr were to go away, what would your online life look like?

The people who own these probably spend $7001 on an HDMI cable. Because false dichotomy in the base argument. Also, I can’t stop thinking PornoPlayer, but the screen has poor resolution. So that’s two things it’s bad at.

In which I learned AOL owns the Huffington Post.