A few days ago I had to write a quick professional bio to be included in a grant application for work. It took me a while (or at least a lot longer than it should have) to write it up, as I weighed how it fit would into the grant etc. While I was working on writing that, I very quickly wrote an alternate take of my bio. Here it is, unedited:<\/p>\n
David Tallacksen fell in love with radio as a young child listening to a static-y Bruce Williams late at night on AM radio. A Sony Boombox with 5-band parametric EQ, received for Christmas, elevated his love for sound when he realized he could remove the speakers for greater stereo separation and imaging. Hearing NPR\u2019s All Things Considered story, \u201cMy So-Called Lungs\u201d in high school cemented for him the need to share his passion for Public Radio. After receiving his Bachelor of Arts in Music from Northern Illinois University, David began a professional life sharing that passion; first at affiliate KMUW, where he re-coded websites and hosted news shows. Now at WBGO, he oversees all technical operations there. David enjoys biking to work, listening to the hifi, and well-written manuals. He hopes to build a brick pizza oven some day.<\/em><\/p>\n So, if you had a similar chance to write a short “alternate take” bio (professional or otherwise), what would it say?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A few days ago I had to write a quick professional bio to be included in a grant application for work. It took me a while (or at least a lot longer than it should have) to write it up, as I weighed how it fit would into the grant etc. While I was working […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piQPn-mW","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/davidtallacksen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1422"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/davidtallacksen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/davidtallacksen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/davidtallacksen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/davidtallacksen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1422"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/davidtallacksen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1422\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1425,"href":"http:\/\/davidtallacksen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1422\/revisions\/1425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/davidtallacksen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/davidtallacksen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/davidtallacksen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}