Reading Time: < 1 min You’ve seen it before; probably nearly every day. An important looking envelope in the mail, but with a dead simple giveaway — it’s addressed to you “or current resident”. If it was important, and meant for you, they wouldn’t say “or current resident”. The same goes with any message that you put out to the […]
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100 days of blogging
Reading Time: < 1 min With this post, I’ve gone 100 days in a row with a blog post. My last run at this (starting back in December of 2016) lasted around 50 days. As I mentioned early on, I tried to shift my mindset from talking about stuff to talking about ideas, in the hopes that it wouldn’t run […]
Who is “the media”?
Reading Time: 2 min We hear quite a lot about “the media” leaning to one side, or the “the media” not promoting a particular event, but who exactly is “the media”? Increasingly, it’s us. This is media. This post can be found in Google, or perhaps you found it via a social media channel. It’s media as much as […]
Don’t start tomorrow
Reading Time: < 1 min If you’re thinking of starting a blog, or writing a book, or exercising, or anything else, a good time to start would be tomorrow. A better time to start would be today. In his book The War of Art, author Steven Pressfield says: We don’t tell ourselves, “I’m never going to write my symphony.” Instead […]
Needless artificial constraints
Reading Time: 2 min Constraints on your work can be a good thing. In The Practice, Seth Godin devotes an entire section to them. Among other examples, he cites Susan Kare’s work on the original Macintosh and the amazing icons she created while under a 32×32 pixel constraint. However, there are times when constraints seem arbitrary and unnecessary, a […]
What record label is Taylor Swift on?
Reading Time: < 1 min What label is Taylor Swift on? It doesn’t matter. It matters to the record label, and it might matter to Taylor, but it doesn’t matter to you or I. We just care whether we can access her on Spotify or YouTube Music or wherever we try to stream. What network produced “The Office”? All most […]
Why Seth Godin doesn’t tweet
Reading Time: 2 min Seth Godin doesn’t use Twitter. He has a Twitter account for his blog, but it’s just for his team to share his latest posts. He’s made it clear before that he doesn’t have a problem with Twitter, and thinks some people make great use of it. In terms of his time and his focus, it’s […]
An hour without a mouse
Reading Time: 2 min I’ve seen people try to use the web with just a keyboard for a full day, or even a week, but I thought a good place to start would just be a single hour. It doesn’t sound too tough at first, but you quickly realize — how do I switch tabs with my keyboard? Or […]
Reading for the altMBA
Reading Time: < 1 min I’m taking part in Seth Godin’s latest class of the altMBA next month, and the books for the session just arrived at my house. These aren’t textbooks or anything — just normal books you can get on Amazon. Some have been on my “to read” list, and some weren’t, but they’ll all be getting read […]
Am I an expert on that?
Reading Time: < 1 min I mentioned David Perell’s “Write of Passage” course a few days ago, and even if the course doesn’t interest you he’s a great guy to follow. A few days ago, David tweeted this: If you’re unable to read the embedded tweet, it says: Writing is humbling because you realize that you don’t understand things you […]