<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">+1 what Logan said. <div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I had an editor say he thought I hadn’t researched my topic and then when I went graph by graph with him… he liked all the content. Said it was fine. Then he re-wrote the intro to include stuff I didn’t want there, including an inaccuracy, which still hasn’t been corrected. Bummer.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Shelf it for a day or two and then come back with fresh energy.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">aly</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""><div><div class="">On Feb 15, 2019, at 3:35 PM, Logan Harbaugh <<a href="mailto:logan@lharba.com" class="">logan@lharba.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="WordSection1" style="page: WordSection1; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);" class="">I’ve felt that way about pieces that everyone else liked, and turned in ones that I thought were very well done that received little attention, or had some editor completely rearrange.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><span style="color: navy;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: navy;" class="">Thanks,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: navy;" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: navy;" class="">Logan G. Harbaugh<br class=""><a href="mailto:logan@lharba.com" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;" class="">logan@lharba.com</a></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: navy;" class=""><br class=""></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: navy;" class="">530-243-1346</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: navy;" class=""><br class=""></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: navy;" class="">1547 Magnolia Ave.</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: navy;" class=""><br class=""></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: navy;" class="">Redding, CA 96001</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: navy;" class=""><br class=""></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: navy;" class=""><a href="http://www.lharba.com/" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;" class="">www.lharba.com</a></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: navy;" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><b class=""><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;" class="">From:</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;" class=""><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Ipg-smz [<a href="mailto:ipg-smz-bounces@netpress.org" class="">mailto:ipg-smz-bounces@netpress.org</a>]<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b class="">On Behalf Of<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b>Matt Heusser<br class=""><b class="">Sent:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Friday, February 15, 2019 8:08 AM<br class=""><b class="">To:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:ipg-smz@netpress.org" class="">ipg-smz@netpress.org</a><br class=""><b class="">Subject:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>[Ipg-smz] not my best work<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div class=""><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class="">I'm a little cranky today because I'm finishing up a piece and it is not my best work. I know, when you write at the volume we do, about 50% of our stuff will not be our best work because that is how averages work - what about about when you know something is bottom 25%?<o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class="">It's easy for me to pick a fight about an AI tool or some nits about a social movement instead of working on improving my own game.<o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class="">For now I'll put it on the shelf and revisit it in a day or three with fresh eyes.<o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class="">Does anyone else have ideas with how to deal with this sort of situation?<o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div class=""><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><br class="">--<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><o:p class=""></o:p></div><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 12pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: 9.5pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;" class="">Matthew Heusser,</span><span style="font-size: 9.5pt; 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