conversation aids or hinders. you grow when among those capable of growing.

Congo Lens

Words in search of ideas. Happens to all … some suffer more. Both these examples come from high traffic, large influence sites.

The telltale sign of word paddler: adding meaningless words. Examples circled in red. Why does something have to be qualified with: “own,” “true,” “actually,” “simply?” These are weasel words

Filling time is something we all do. We seem to do it as we have less time remaining. Those who didn’t make it as far as they wanted, are those making a past more valuable now than it was then. Their past expands to fill the present. Bad examples are what they preserve — the best they did. I don’t know, although I want to avoid them, I can’t. They remain the toothache of aging. I use “aging” as placeholder for a wordphrase I haven’t coined.

On to the wide field Ektar… ask the question in the better place gets: M. Reiss, Kodak patent. Follow up that search takes you into the Kodak patents on “objectives,” and coatings of lenses. This is meant to suggest you take an alternate path to learning. The internet isn’t the problem; the gossip counter is a hindrance meant to use up the last of their time.

An alternate world

Which horse do you ride?

Instead of reading the MikeJ’s, try something like the following about Richard Benson:

That might get you into a more understanding relationship with your work and the world of that work.