The urge to take credit, to seek approbation for your work, is an understandable one.
If you are needy and insecure, your leadership will be distorted by wanting people to like you, and your desire for approbation will engender weak decision-making and indulgence of under-performing favourites.
Indeed, I observe that you have offered learned Commentary on its second Episode, "Battle of the Smithsonian" — though I confess that I was unable to discern from your Prose whether it met with your full Approbation.
Your liver will thank you, your investors will thank you, and most importantly so will millions of real-world users who really want you to create something new and innovative rather than being sucked into the hype and churning out just a better, prettier Twitter-meets-Gowalla clone for the approbation of your peers.
Dometi Pongo, News Anchor, WVON1690, Chicago, IL @Dometi_ "The trick about speaking truth to power is to do it from your inner conviction of moral truth and not for a desire for approbation and not to be deterred by condemnation either - and to let your sense of the rightness of things overcome the fear of not speaking.
Tell me about your priorities for your first few months.
Thanks for your suggestions.
Mr. West's next album can only be a disappointment, a step down from the perfect ratings and universal acclaim he's been openly craving since the beginning of his career and has finally wrested from the last constituency most people look to for approbation: critics.
You can read Greenwald's truly epoch-making series on security and liberty in the Guardian and pick your own approbations or invectives.
