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	<title>Matthew T Grant &#187; life lessons</title>
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		<title>It Doesn&#8217;t Get Better, You Have to Make it Better</title>
		<link>http://www.matthewtgrant.com/2012/02/03/it-doesnt-get-better-you-have-to-make-it-better/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 14:55:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Commiserating with a friend about jobs a few years back, it turned out that while we both expressed dissatisfaction with our then current situations, we were also pessimistic about finding attractive alternatives. [Ironic aside: Neither one of us is at the job we had then. For my part, the gigs I've done since have been, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Good Enough Is Good Enough, OK?</title>
		<link>http://www.matthewtgrant.com/2012/01/20/good-enough-is-good-enough-ok/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 16:00:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I heard someone today say, &#8220;Nowadays, good enough just isn&#8217;t good enough.&#8221; I disagree. Good enough, by definition, is good enough. If it weren&#8217;t good enough, then it wouldn&#8217;t be. But behind the statement is a more general cultural consensus that one should never &#8220;settle for less&#8221; and, instead, strive for the amazing. &#8220;Go big [...]]]></description>
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		<title>No Reason to Stop</title>
		<link>http://www.matthewtgrant.com/2011/11/13/no-reason-to-stop/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Nov 2011 03:16:36 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Thinking Out Loud]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Standing on the corner of College Avenue and Dryden Friday night at 1:30ish, watching undergraduates stagger around aimlessly and shout at/to each other, I turned to my friend saying, &#8220;I&#8217;m gonna call it a night, even though, frankly, there&#8217;s really no reason to stop.&#8221; &#8220;Now you see how I&#8217;m living,&#8221; he replied. Just a moment [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Three Worlds</title>
		<link>http://www.matthewtgrant.com/2011/11/03/three-worlds/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Nov 2011 20:43:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We live in three worlds. The first world is the world of our direct experience. I consider this the &#8220;really real&#8221; world; it&#8217;s literally where we live. That being said, I consider our dreams as integral part of this world. The second world is the world of our knowledge. This is both a mediated world—we [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Let&#8217;s Talk</title>
		<link>http://www.matthewtgrant.com/2010/04/17/lets-talk/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Apr 2010 19:29:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve never been a big fan of the &#8220;reality is an illusion&#8221; perspective, though I certainly understand it. If we equate reality with our perception of reality, for example, then we are naturally deluded, for that perception is a product of our sense organs, our neurological infrastructure, and, I&#8217;m told, our race, class, and/or gender. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Publish and Perish</title>
		<link>http://www.matthewtgrant.com/2010/03/04/publish-and-perish/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Mar 2010 01:33:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are many reasons why my academic career didn&#8217;t pan out, but among them is undoubtedly the fact that I didn&#8217;t publish very much. For example, I never turned my dissertation on the Baader-Meinhof Gang into a book (though part of my research did end up in an obscure, Canadian journal called, Border/Lines). When I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thought Ronin</title>
		<link>http://www.matthewtgrant.com/2010/01/26/thought-ronin/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jan 2010 06:40:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been a &#8220;thought ronin&#8221; for going on a year now. In the same way that the lone gunslinger is a staple of the Western, ronin (&#8220;masterless samurai&#8221;) have been staple figures, and frequently protagonists, in samurai films from the very outset of the genre &#8211; an early epic of which was in fact entitled [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s Not About Money</title>
		<link>http://www.matthewtgrant.com/2009/08/27/its-not-about-money/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2009 16:23:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Better a debtor than pay with a coin that does not bear our image! - Friedrich Nietzsche I&#8217;ve never been motivated by money. Well, that&#8217;s not entirely true. I have been motivated by money to the extent that having money, or a relatively constant source of it, was necessitated by the need for food, shelter, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Content and its Discontents</title>
		<link>http://www.matthewtgrant.com/2009/05/30/content-and-its-discontents/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 May 2009 20:48:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The other day I posted, &#8220;5 Rules for Creating Content that RULES!&#8220;, which I wrote with PJA&#8217;s Mike O&#8217;Toole. We were walking a fine line because we wanted to talk about ways to effectively conduct content-driven marketing but, at the same time, we said that your content strategy had to flow from your marketing strategy [...]]]></description>
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