Sunscreen

I cannot fight the sun
Its too powerful
there is no escape
i will get burnt

i tried covering my face
i tried hiding behind sheets of cloth
it still manages to damage
its so freaking hot

Too powerful, no i can't fight it
i am alone
even i were ten thousand
i would have had to moan

its like fighting against a system
that you cannot change
i am tired
of finding shades to hide

one man has never changed the system
he will only look like a fool
i became a rebillion
thinking i was super cool

will gift some sunscreen to sun this time
that should put him in place
and wait for cloud to cover
and joy to rain, just in case

i know the sun is smirking at me
because he is one up for now
but listen dude, chill maar
till i enter and you take a bow!

see every dog has his day
and so will i
and my time will be forever
then will be your time to say good bye

Preeti

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Blogs and Books are Focused

I’m not forcing to invite my audience here. I’m trying to keep it focused on my interests. I feel that I don’t have to worry about boring 90 percent of the audience—because [the audience for my blog] self-selected themselves as wanting to read this, I can be much more authentic and much more liberated to talk about what I really want to talk about, rather than trying to anticipate the needs of a scattered, diverse audience like a magazine has.

By the way, I find blogging ruins me for magazine writing. It’s difficult to write for magazines right now, which is ironic given that I’m a magazine editor. It’s difficult because magazines are a kind of one-size-fits-all product, and the audience is large, with differing interests. You have to write something that tries to satisfy all of [your readers] or many of them, whereas a blog is very self-selecting. If you’re interested in what I have to say, fine. If you’re not, that’s great—go somewhere else.

The book is also self-selecting. If you’re not interested in the concepts in the book, don’t buy it. If you are, I’m going to go deep, and that’s great. But books—and blogs—are focused, whereas magazines are not.

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