Excuse me before i get to the subject of this post. Due to previous comments i have received from some of my Talkmarkets' followers, i plan to start this and any future post with a little bookkeeping. Now here is that bookkeeping: If you would like to purchase a copy of my new book, Globanomics, click on "Globonomics" up by my picture on this post where it says "Contributor Links".

Now on to the subject at hand--Linda's Feedback.

As a way to get "feedback" on some of my thinking, i sometimes copy a post and send it out to family, friends, associates, reporters, etc.  I have been doing this kind of thing "on and off" for about twenty-years now.  Over that time, i have received all kinds of important and relevant feedback.  I must admit though that some of the feedback has not been positive--i have even lost some friends in the process--and they will never to be recovered again.

But probably the most important feedback i get is from Linda.  And yesterday, Linda said that she "wished i would quit blogging--she says she doesn't even know the person who is blogging now."

Mmmff.  Heck, i do not even like being the person who has been blogging these past few days (i.e., bitchy, braggadocious, begging, etc.--my words, btw, not linda's).  Those posts were counter to everything that i truly believe.  I won't take them back though.  I cannot anyway--they are already part of the cloud.  

In Globanomics early in the Preface i wrote: "People may not be flocking to read what I have to say today but it's funny because i do not care.  My words will remain out there just the same--whether they are read by three people or three million people.  My words are my legacy, and i will die a happy man knowing that is the case."

Now anyone who has been reading my most recent posts would have to conclude that i was lying when i wrote the above--and i would have no basis to argue back.  It seems that i do care whether the number of readers is three million in lieu of three--and for the life of me that makes me think Linda's feedback is "right on."

And for that reason, i have decided to limit any future blogging to "current issues" or "whimsical thoughts".  I will start each blog with my "introductory paragraph" mentioning my book, Globanomics, but other than that i have no intention to mention the book again in any future blog. 

ps.  And as of right now this morning, i cannot think of a "current issue" that i want to blog about (things do seem okay), nor do i have any "whimsical thoughts" to add to my followers' own whimsical lives.