I am a huge Superman fan. Huge. One of my most earliest memories as a kid is running around my house in my Superman Underroos jumping off the couch and getting really pissed when I didn't fly. The way my dad tells it is that I did a great faceplant from the loveseat and had a look of utter astonishment on my face when I didn't defy Earth's gravity. There's something about the character of Superman that I guess just speaks to people.
You're sitting at your desk working on your next great email marketing plan and you have a killer email all ready to go. You hit send and wait for the results to pour in. And you wait. And you wait some more. All of a sudden you start wondering, "Am I even reaching these people?" If you're not paying attention to your email marketing analytics the answer is probably... no.
"Know thyself", an ancient Greek aphorism, is one of the Delphic maxims and was inscribed in the pronaos (forecourt) of the Temple of Apollo at Delphi according to the Greek periegetic (travelogue) writer Pausanias. has had a variety of meanings attributed to it in literature. The Suda, a tenth century encyclopedia of Greek knowledge, says: "the proverb is applied to those whose boasts exceed what they are," and that "know thyself" is a warning to pay no attention to the opinion of the multitude.[1]
When I sat down to think what kind of things I'd talk about in the blog I thought the best thing to do is just be me and talk about whatever is on my mind. That might include talking about things pertaining to web design and graphic design but it might also be about pop culture and funny things going on. For better or worse "I am what I am." Popeye said that. Great philosophy.
