Okay, there's a link on the NextStage Evolution website and I include a link in my email signature, and I reference the blog in an upcoming IMediaConnection column but that's about the limit of my self-promotion. Yes, I appreciate the oxymoronish quality of what I'm writing here and simultaneously including a link to where several of my articles have been published.
Let me explain.
I'm happy to blog. I enjoy it. I think the Greetings From the Mothership and Mr. Machine and Childhood Imagination entries are dang fine writing.
The problem is that I'm...uh...shy. I don't like drawing attention to myself. I know there are folks in my past who would argue that statement, never-the-less I believe it to be true. And I've always laughed at people who can reference themselves in the third person. As I wrote to one fellow, the dichotomy for me is between "Don't hide your light under a bushel" and "Let not your right hand know what your left hand is doing." I know the latter applies to doing good works. What I get caught up with is the possibility of egoistically thinking I'm doing good works.
Fortunately, I have my advocates. Lunametrics CEO Robbin Steif says I'm one of the smartest men in the WAA. The researcher in me laughs, though. I wonder if the implication is that I'm at the top of the bottom half of the class. I receive regular emails indicating my columns and whitepapers have helped people in things ranging from site design to viral campaign design. My latest column on personae mapping has been out one day and I've already received emails from readers on it. One fellow wrote that I provided more actionable information in that column than did some consultants to whom he paid several thousand dollars. Jason Carmel wrote that I was one of the good things about the recent DC Emetrics Summit. Several readers of our paper on using eye images as navigation aids commented on the excellent research and findings (you can get a kind of intro to that paper here). One comment that I loved, from web designer and graphic artist Susan Prager, "I did get a laugh out of those little eyes and could not stop myself from looking right."
I have no problem with people saying nice things about me. For that matter, I have no problem with people saying not nice things about me. Both nice and not nice things are opinions, and what is "arrogance" to some is "confidence" to others. One of my favorite saying is "If the butchers, bakers and candlestick makers have a problem with you, you have a problem. If the butchers and bakers think you're a great guy and the candlestick makers think you're a yutz, it's the candlestick makers' problem and don't worry yourself about it."
What I see happening is that I'm moving from the 90 percentile to the 1 percentile and it's a little odd for me...
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