Born Under Punches

perpetua:

“At first, she was talented enough to get by. Live performances, although slightly edgy, were strong enough to forgive the fact that she’d obviously had a few before she went on stage. But eventually, even this all proved too much for her adoring fans and just a few months ago, the quality of her performance was so poor she was booed off stage in Serbia. There are so many parallels here in business. A young business starts well, and gets busy. The business owner frequently ignores their own health, swapping trips to the gym for an extra couple of hours in the office, eating takeaway dinners instead of healthy home cooked food, scrimping on sleep and generally running themselves into the ground.”

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Amy Winehouse’s Untimely Death Is a Wake Up Call for Small Business Owners

I feel dirty linking to the Huffington Post, but this blog post is one of the most absurd things I have read in a while. I am certain that it is the result of HuffPo editors looking at trending terms and getting a writer to wedge them into one post. This is some of the sweatiest, most labored writing I’ve read in a while, and it’s clearly just for the purposes of SEO. I’m afraid that the media will eventually just degenerate into nothing but incoherent SEO mad libs.