“Success comes when you create something you want and need — and then find other people like you who agree they need and want it also.” – Rex Hammock
Category: Thought of the Day
Relevance not Determined by the Beholder?
“Relevance is determined by influence.” – Norman Mailer That was Mailer’s response to: “Has your writing had an impact?” While Mailer was referring to the larger influence of who controls the past determining what is relevant. The same is true on a much smaller, person-to-person scale. Perhaps relevance is like identity – defined by everyone […]
Balance in the Air
A couple very recent quotes on balancing your life from two of my favorite bloggers: “5. People have only so much toleration for novelty in them; no one embraces novelty consistently and in all fields of life. Spend your tolerance for novelty wisely.” – Tyler Cowen 23.”Running a startup is full of extreme ups and […]
Take 40% Off the Top
“Trees must be cut down, hauled to factories in trucks, and pulped into rolls of paper, which themselves must be transported to other factories, where they are chopped up, covered in ink, folded, stacked, and loaded onto a third set of trucks. These trucks then fan out across the region, dropping bundles at distribution points, […]
Three Wise Men on Authenticity
It’s not the ancient gift of perfumes and spices, just some good thinking on being yourself: “[Pro sports marketing] puts athletes on pedastals . Exactly where they shouldn’t be….The beauty of Happy Gilmore and big personalities is that you don’t have to create commercials to promote them.” – Mark Cuban “By adopting a term that […]
Should I Be Relieved or Concerned?
While undigging from the vacation backlog, I peaked into a BaseCamp account I’m using for a handful of projects and received this message: Uh. Um. Well. Guess I’ll just toss that To Do list into the trash and head for the beach. On a related note – while going for my daily walk last Thursday […]
Going Long
Realism is just idealism stretched over time. – Thomas P. M. Barnett There really isn’t much a of ‘short run’. It quickly becomes yesterday. The long run, on the other hand, sticks around for quite a while. – Seth Godin
More and Less, More or Less
Overheard in a meeting today: “You’re going to be less recipient and more participant.” Seems like a pretty good description of how this media landscape is changing.
Note to ‘Self-Proclaimed Experts’
“This was when I realized suddenly that all those self-proclaimed “experts” telling me what to do had no qualification whatsoever regarding my life, ideals, or methodologies.” – David Seah