Ack, no!
New resolution: Always ask to look over anything written about myself before it goes out.
The entrepreneurial award I won carries the price prize of a press release and web profile from the organization that funds the award. I just got copy for the profile, and… yikes. Phrases like “extremely adept at all the technologies that…” just set my teeth on edge. (Not that I’m not good at what I do; I am. But nobody’s adept at “all” technologies in any sphere.)
I’m busily whittling down the go-me rhetoric to what I hope is a reasonably tasteful minimum while adding a concrete accomplishment or two. I’ve no notion what’ll get put back in by the time this thing hits the photons, though.
And, as usual, I’m finding the whole deal horribly, horribly embarrassing.