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April 21, 2011

a use for the ohio state university?

Fallout from this presentation in February continues unabated.

The same executive flew into town yesterday to ask me to write marketing materials. Why ask a technical writer who can't write marketing shit at gunpoint to write marketing materials? That's a very good question. Nevertheless, here I am. I tried not to be.

"Uh, you know I have, like, zero experience or aptitude for this, right?"

"Exactly!" he beamed. "I want a fresh take. If I went to one of the marketing morons, they would just spit back something straight out of Harvard Business School."

I considered this. "Well, if you're looking for the exact opposite of a Harvard education," I told him later, "I'm your man."

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