Tim Peters

I'm a corporate writer, teach writing on occasion at UC Berkeley's Extension program, and like to take pictures of urban life and street art.

[Tim Peters @timpeters1959]

Usually, I just shake my head in wonder at the idiocy of email marketers before I unsubscribe. But after receiving 27 emails in less than one month from a company I know and admire – I have bought many, many pairs of glasses from @warbyparker – I am fed up. #EmailMarketing #spam

[Tim Peters @timpeters1959]

@Fidelity I'm able to log in to Fidelity.

[Tim Peters @timpeters1959]

@Joeydonohue5 @Fidelity Ally Financial is down too.

[Tim Peters @timpeters1959]

@gluecode Cyber Castoffs via @airmailweekly https://t.co/2AyiXxUkfH This looks to be in your wheelhouse, Sunil :)

[Tim Peters @timpeters1959]

Finally, my executive talents are acknowledged in a way I should post on LinkedIn: the fortune cookie. Apparently, I can outsource the ability to pick lottery numbers, but not, alas, the ability to use commas. #grammar

[Tim Peters @timpeters1959]

Brilliant essay on Shakespeare and (unnamed) Trump: " a different plague, the plague of being governed by.a mendacious, morally bankrupt, incompetent, blood-soaked, and ultimately self-destructive leader": https://t.co/yMAZjxs1hK

Macbeth=Trump #greenblatt #shakespeare

[Tim Peters @timpeters1959]

A perfect--and damning--graph in the Times today: https://t.co/HkwQLcTngL Perfect in the sense that it's crystal-clear and offers the basis for a meaningful comparison; damning in the sense that it's, well, damning. #COVID19 #DumpTrump2020

[Tim Peters @timpeters1959]

When I started using a word processor, dropping the second space was one of the first habits I developed. Two spaces were useful with fixed-width fonts but silly in today's world. Thanks, Sunil; this is a good development.

[Sunil Karkera @sunilrkarkera]

For all the two spacers after a period, it's end of an era. Microsoft Word now flags it as an error. https://t.co/vDEsDMUXwG cc: @timpeters1959 #grammar

[Tim Peters @timpeters1959]

I can't understand why the ongoing story of the evil #loriloughlin and the clueless #oliviajade bothers me so much – but it does: https://t.co/eE04TYocxZ

[Tim Peters @timpeters1959]

@Connellybooks @YouTube So pleased your tweet alerted me to this; I've read The Black Echo twice and now am been listening to this audio version. I am even more impressed this time around; it's a great thriller, and an astonishingly accomplished first novel – so cleverly conceived and constructed.

[Tim Peters @timpeters1959]

As an Anglophile, I'm predisposed to like this address by Queen Elizabeth II to the UK people. As an American, I'm embarrassed we don't have a leader capable of providing such simple, thoughtful, and hopeful reassurance. https://t.co/07fzk341up #coronavirus #QueenElizabeth

[Tim Peters @timpeters1959]

Excellent framework, Rajan. Thanks for sharing it!

[Rajan Thiyagarajan @pmronline]

The “HEART” framework - Be more human #COVID19

[Tim Peters @timpeters1959]

@KathleenUlrich I'll add my two cents here, KU: Our near-term challenges, for any responsible business, are about helping, not about selling.

[Tim Peters @timpeters1959]

@BoschAmazon @Connellybooks Good one. :)

[William Shakespeare @Wwm_Shakespeare]

he lies,
And lies, and lies.

[Tim Peters @timpeters1959]

Damn straight.

[Jack Reacher Books @LeeChildReacher]

'I can't worry about something I can't change'

This is one of #ReachersRules that we keep coming back to.

[Tim Peters @timpeters1959]

Hugely important now and going forward: https://t.co/sLa4NmPcLU via @NYTimes | How we treat the neediest defines us a society (and we don’t look that good — yet!). #coronavirus #inequality

[Tim Peters @timpeters1959]

@HarriettSG @maggiegeewriter @nazirafzal I cannot wait to read "Hamnet" by Maggie O'Farrell. Great episode and great podcast in general.

For my #goodread: Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel because the sleeping sickness of the Tudor era is so relevant today.

[Tim Peters @timpeters1959]

Fantastic

[Tim Peters @timpeters1959]

I love the New York Times – its overage of #coronavirus is sure to win another Pulitzer – but it also finds beauty in the midst of fear: https://t.co/Q6O0WVZ6Jw