MOVING ON

Unless you've been aware of businesses known for their leadership and creativity, you may not find this book much of help. Read it because you're ready to admit you're weird yourself. And you're not afraid of it being known, and would even want to highlight your weird traits, and get to attract others who share similarities with you. With this book, you may probably get ideas on how to gain some help in marketing what's unusual with you, your products or services. You build your business with those who have weird traits, too, and there's no need to seek out for customers who are on the lookout for the ordinary, the regular, and the usual. Leave these people to their own commonalities. Perhaps, before you know it, you'll find yourself in a profitable business situation for all regular business folks to learn from :-D We Are All Weird by Seth Godin My rating: 4 of 5 stars I'm weird myself, & that's why I enjoyed reading this book! And people...

I've copy-pasted exchanges between 3 volunteer proofreaders of Project Gutenberg Distributed Proofreaders ( PGDP ): myself (DYEROHM), LASERO, and MEREDITH. I've been doing volunteer proofreading works for Project Gutenberg for over 5 years now, mainly for Tagalog e-books. I was completely taken aback by the message sent to me by "LASERO" who sounded so contemptuous of my skills as a proofreader. He just sounded so mean to me; I only could just react, and reply with harshness myself. The saving grace though came from "MEREDITH" who sent me a message for another e-book project. "MEREDITH" was more specific, and sounded far from being judgmental. Consider reading the exchanges and judge for yourself. Consider also the context behind all these proofreading works the 3 of us are doing: we're all DOING purely volunteer work. We don't actually need to be put down, even for unintentional reasons. I just can't help but be mean to others myse...