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Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success. - Henry Ford

I've been very busy lately working on a new project — details to come soon.  I've been pushing myself into areas I never considered before, thinking about things I've often taken for granted.  In the process of doing my due diligence I was looking at websites by other people with the same interests.  Every site I'd visit would lead to more questions or ideas - sometimes both.  Finally I realized that every single site I visited had an About page and every one of those pages had an email address.  Imagine that…

I realized that instead of just reading the site and trying to figure out the details myself, a quick email to the site's owner would be a heck of a lot more productive.  And it was — imagine that…  By reaching out to those people, they gladly shared the wisdom of their experience.  In fact I learned more in an afternoon of email and phone calls than I could have in 6 months otherwise.

The collected wisdom of the western world is at your fingertips.  The Internet can answer questions you didn't even know you had.  But for some things you gotta connect with the person on the other side of the keyboard. 

On this site I've been an advocate of using the Internet to find new drills and practice plans.  The Internet is a great way to find that information — I can't imagine not having it as a tool.  But in your search, don't forget about the person on the other side of the glass.  There's probably a lot more that hasn't gone onto the site.  You won't get a response from everybody, but the responses you do get will be invaluable.