Friday, October 19, 2018

"10 Winning Intros to Solve That Boring Cover Letter"

Résumé?
Report?

Get that reader's attention, fast.

From McSweeney's, July 31, 2017:

10 Winning Intros to Solve That Boring Cover Letter
by CHARLES MORRIS
1. “The Confederacy’s biggest problem was messaging.”

2. “I write this as I feel the chemo seep deeper into my body — how can something heal me and kill me at the same time?”

3. “Hey Fucklord, you think you’re better than me?”
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Just watching NVIDIA race Tesla back to $200 and poking around in the link-vault, reminiscent of Adam Smith's classic vignette:
 “…For, after all, I had been into cocoa a bit myself. That was back when The Great Winfield had discovered cocoa trading. Occasionally in those more leisured days I would sit with him lazily watching stocks move, like two sheriffs in a rowboat watching catfish in the Tennessee River….”
-'Adam Smith', Supermoney 

Life is good.