While business people of every ilk have always had to do some version of horn-blowing, the demand for serious self-promotion started when the entire world went DIY some years back, with everyone doing anything and everything for themselves.
Everyone doing anything, especially something new to them, has ten great ideas in a day.
It's no bad thing to get inoculated to the consequences of being different early on, everyone who does anything interesting is a little bit off-beat.
Of course, everyone who does anything depends, at a given moment, on the vote of confidence of an employer or a backer, but there are two kinds of people, those already in motion and those set in motion from a standstill.
So is your local real estate agent, mortgage broker, and everyone who does anything with money.
"Everyone complains, but nobody does anything," she said.
Maritimers prefer to ask what someone is "saying" rather than "doing," because most of them come from small towns where everyone gossips and nobody actually does anything.
This flies in the face of that time-tested axiom that everyone in the music industry who does anything besides rock the fuck out isn't worth his or her weight in fetid afterbirth.
Such a man supposedly knows everything, sees everything, thinks for everyone, can do anything, is infallible in his behaviour.
And we know that Vladamir Putin recently derided UN Security Council Resolution 73 as being "defective and flawed" because it "allows everyone to do anything, take any action against a sovereign state".
