When the blogs I follow reached 57, I went through the list to see what could be pruned out to make a more manageable group. Oh sure, 57 is nothing – colleague Rob Clark said at one time he was following 390! But following them all seemed to be taking up way too much time, so one of the blogs I regretfully pruned from my list was the Dilbert Blog. Scott Adams makes me laugh, but he just posts too darn often and writes too much!
Today I revisited Dilbert, and he’s probably back on. In one of his recent posts (filed under “General Nonsense”), Scott had asked readers to describe themselves in one word, and reported that people said things like curious, determined and skeptical. He remarked that these didn’t line up well with a list of positive personality adjectives he had found, which, he added, “if you read it actually makes you feel slightly upbeat.” Some time ago, a friend had sent around an e-mail asking for the same one-word description; I can’t recall what I said at the time, but probably “cheerful” or “positive” would cover me most days. How would YOU describe yourself?