This Is Not the Manual

Trust me, you don’t want me writing a manual. My ever patient wife tells me I’m the walking, talking, living, breathing definition of “discursive.”

In Webster’s, discursive is defined as “moving from topic to topic without order.” Or, even worse, “passing aimlessly from one subject to another; digressive; rambling.”

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Ouch. Okay, I’m not manual material.

Who are the people who write manuals? They are organized, concise, lucid, meticulous, and analytical. They think in a linear, precise way. They draw hellacious diagrams. They are technically sound, and they think things through. Generally, they are not photographers. ...

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