Tag: David Pogue
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The difference between quality and excellence
It’s Down the Road’s fifth blogiversary! All month I’m reposting favorite stories from the blog’s early days. My long career in software development was briefly interrupted in the mid 1990s when I took a job editing technology books. My first project was editing a new edition of one of the publisher’s biggest sellers. I drew this…
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Pride of workmanship, part 2
I moved to Indianapolis many years ago to take a job editing technology books. My first project was editing a new edition of one of the publisher’s biggest sellers. I drew this plum assignment not for my l33t editorial skills, but for being the new guy. You see, the author had a reputation for running…