Working Up

by Dwayne Phillips

Another embarrassing blog post: please put the date on your blog posts and articles.

I am really embarrassed to be writing this one, but I do so because I continue to read posts and articles that are not dated. Was the piece written five minutes or five years ago? I don’t know because there is no date.

Okay, so here we go.

When you write something:

• 0.1 Write your name
• 0.2 Write the date
• 1.0 Write everything else

If nothing else, you have now copyrighted your thoughts. Beyond that, you provide a context for your thoughts and, per the old saying…

A text without a context is a pretext.