I have often heard that Jack Kirby was the true genius behind the early Marvel years, and that Stan Lee's fame has largely been built on Kirby's foundation. I think that this is totally unfair. Lee is only exposed to the criticism because of the "Marvel method" which they created, wherein the artist has input into the general creative process of the writer, and vice versa.
I have always been fairly enthusiastic about the World Wide Web. I was blessed to be at university and my first job during the hey-day of the dot-com bubble. I grew up and got my professional sea legs around the same time that the Web did. In a lot of ways I feel like we grew up together.
But, as excited as I was about the Web initially, I really fell in love with it a few years later when "search engine optimization", now generally called "search engine marketing" started to develop as a discipline. I've always had mixed feelings about marketing in general.
I'm generally an upbeat, optimistic person. I believe in hope. I think that things will turn out in the end. These are the things that often come across to people when they first meet me. I'm an upper. But, the few people who take the time to get to know me better, realize that I'm often quite pessimistic -- just in the literal sense, and not the emotional sense. I generally forecast that bad things are going to happen. I'm constantly preparing myself, mentally as well as organizationally, for the worst. I expect to get fired. I think about myself or people close to me dying.
