Comments on: Too Damn Fast

By: Ike

Ike — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 19:59:41 +0000

Even worse, Todd:

If you’re nets are always in the water, when will you patch them?

By: Todd Defren

Todd Defren — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 17:35:18 +0000

Yes, yes – we are fishing while the fishing is good, and making hay while the sun is shining, and saving for a rainy day.

My concern, in the post, is that we may be over-fishing the waters. If the net is always in the water, the tireless fishermen will start to make mistakes. And they might forget to stop (occasionally) to smell the flowers.

By: Mike Driehorst

Mike Driehorst — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 03:27:24 +0000

“Pacing”?

Fish while the fishin’s good, and hopefully you catch enough for when they ain’t a bitin’!
Mike

By: Gary Goldhammer

Gary Goldhammer — Sun, 18 Feb 2007 00:30:07 +0000

Todd, great post — would have commented sooner, but I was too…well, you know what I mean

By: Sherrilynne Starkie

Sherrilynne Starkie — Fri, 16 Feb 2007 09:35:35 +0000

The market is really popping right now. We are working flat out with many new biz proposals out for consideration. This is so much more fun than cold calling, don’t you agree?

By: Kami Huyse

Kami Huyse — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 21:04:44 +0000

I am going to have to agree with you here. So much I have begged off of in order to just get my hands into my client work. I don’t know about you, but the work has never been more fulfilling, yet busy. I will join your chorus for pacing. That is what I have been trying to achieve, though it leaves me out of some great “conversations” from time to time.

By: Heather Yaxley

Heather Yaxley — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 17:38:21 +0000

Todd – I posted on similar mental frustrations recently and feel there is a need for a way of coping with the non-linear multi-thinking that I want and need to do today. If you’ve any ideas – stop by my blog and let me know.

On the “strategic” PR front, I’m a fellow champion. The more we keep correcting those with “press release” mentalities the better. Thanks.

By: Robert French

Robert French — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 17:19:43 +0000

Thank you, Todd.

I was also overwhelmed with all the ways I wanted to respond. So, I waited, too.

The point about the broad scope of PR practice is the one I wish the enthusiasts and critics would bear in mind. The rant part was, of course, just me venting the frustration.

Probably a good thing I waited this long to post.

By: John Wagner

John Wagner — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 16:25:40 +0000

Todd:

Great post … it’s not always the time involved that gets me, but the mental strain of juggling multiple assignments and trying to be smart all the time.

Blogging requires the same type of mental commitment … that’s something we don’t realize when we start!

By: Ike

Ike — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 16:09:02 +0000

Might I recommend the book “Faster: The Acceleration of Just About Everything” by James Gleick? (The paperback had “FSTR JMS GLCK” on the cover, because vowels are just too damned redundant.)

It’s been out a few years, but his micro-essays read more true today than when I picked up the book in 2001.