Words from Walt
At various places in this website, you will see notes called A Word from Walt. In these notes, I give you a suggestion or a comment on that part of the website.
As an example, here is a comment on the way I write on this website—and the way I have written the various other writings stored on this website. I base this on a note in the Castle Guide to A Goal Is A Dream Taken Seriously.
A word from Walt on dates, spellings, and stories
In the mid-1970s, when I began writing about life and career designing, I was living in the USA and using American spelling and vocabulary. In the early 80s, I was living in London and using British spelling and vocabulary. In the late 90s, I moved back to Scotland (where I lived for two years in the 60s) and I have now adopted a wee bit of Scottish vocabulary.
Thus, the articles and newsletters and designs that I have created over the years show a variety of spelling and vocabulary. One particular word that I often use is spelled one way in American English and two ways in British English. So, you may see an organisation become an organization (or vice versa) through no fault of its own.
Rather than attempt to bring all these writings up to date, I have left them as they are – in the hope that you will find them still useful – if occasionally puzzling or amusing.
You may notice that some of the stories sound familiar. That is probably because you have already read that story elsewhere in my writings. Some stories are good enough to tell more than once!
I do my best to give credit to the people I have learned with and to the people who have shared their stories with me over the years. And in my own journals, I have recorded hundreds of stories about my own learnings.
One of the people I give credit to is David Sparks at www.macsparky.com, who has helped thousands of people – including me – become more productive by using software technology more effectively.
Inspired by a similar statement from David, I want to say very clearly that although it might technically be possible to create a guide like the Castle Guide or a website like www.WaltHopkins.com by using something called artificial intelligence that relies on an LLM (Large Language Model), I have not used any kind of artificial intelligence for these writings.
I want to be clear that what you are reading here comes from my own natural intelligence and from what I like to call my own LSC (Large Story Collection). Onward!