A Manifesto For Free Radicals: Less Paperwork, Less Waiting, More Action. In chemistry, the term “free radical” is used to describe molecules with unpaired electrons, those that may have a positive, negative, or zero charge. They are hard to pin down, and as a result their possibilities are endless. They can prove wildly destructive or instrumental, depending on context. I‘ve been thinking about the emergence of a new type of 21st-century professional. I call them “free radicals” because they take their careers into their own hands and put the world to work for them. The commoditization of once-pricey resources like business management services (now in the cloud) and everything open-source is the wind at their backs.Free Radicals are resilient, self-reliant, and extremely potent.
You’ll find them working solo, in small teams, or within large companies. They’re everywhere, and they’re crafting the future. We do work that is, first and foremost, intrinsically rewarding. We make stuff often, and therefore, we fail often. We believe that “networking” is sharing. Write to Done | Unmissable articles on writing. Please Sign In. Ghostwriter Dad | Ghostwriting Advice — Donna Baier Stein. Writer, Editor, Publisher Donna Baier Stein's poetry and prose have appeared in Virginia Quarterly Review, Kansas Quarterly, Prairie Schooner, Washingtonian, and many other journals and anthologies. Her story collection Great Drawing Board of the Sky was a Finalist in the Iowa Fiction Awards; her novel Fortune received the PEN/New England Discovery Award and is now represented by William Morris Endeavor.
Donna was a founding editor of Bellevue Literary Review, and currently is the Editor and Publisher of Tiferet: A Journal of Spiritual Literature. Her awards include a Scholarship from Bread Loaf Writers Conference, two awards from the Poetry Societies of Virginia and New Hampshire, a Fellowship from Johns Hopkins University, a fellowship from the New Jersey Council on the Arts, and individual fiction and poetry prizes from various journals and anthologies.
Donna lives and works in New Jersey and is the mother of two great children, Jonathan and Sarah. Click to enlarge photo. About Freelance Writing — Helping freelance writers find jobs for free and make more money with their writing by Anne Wayman.