In the video below, This American Life’s Ira Glass talks about the value of perseverance in any creative endeavor. The progression he describes is what all content creators experience, barring freakish outliers. What first gets you into the creative game is your taste, which leads you to the art of creating. But when you first
Read More...Successes are more informative than failures. If you succeed, everything has gone right, so there’s a lot more information in successes than failures. The brain probably evolved to take advantage of successes because there’s more information there. —Earl K. Miller, professor of neuroscience at MIT, in “We Learn More From Success, Not Failure” Two sides
Read More...Here’s a little something that nicely striates the nerd/geek/dork/dweeb population into something of a hierarchy. Everyone should be gunning for geek, yes? (Via Chris)
Read More...I’m out of town this week without much of a consistent Internet connection, and I haven’t had any time to scour the web for the usual bits of greatness that I usually do. So, in sneaking bits here and there between obligations, here are some things you should click on. Really. Do it for my
Read More...Couldn’t resist sharing this. (Via Larry Zagata)
Read More...We’ve talked about PeopleSoft Real Estate Management (REM) before, but I want to take a moment to highlight an example of two common pains that many companies endure before realizing they need a full REM solution. Like everything else, this is an exercise in tipping points: your tools work well enough until one day, frustration
Read More...BNET’s Drew Kerr: Well-written press releases have lost much of their power to generate actual news coverage. Journalists suffering from information overload rarely have the time to slog through the number of pitches they receive daily, so publicists bank on their relationships with them to get coverage. If press releases have any potency now, it
Read More...Thought-provoking and spot-on post by Amber Riviere over at Web Worker Daily: Yesterday, I read the “Unconventional Guide to the Social Web,” and although I found a lot of useful information in it, one quote has stuck with me since reading it: “Your blog is your mothership. Don’t neglect it for lesser tools.” This is
Read More...The crew at 37signals has a book coming on March 9, 2010, and I’ve already pre-ordered it through Amazon. Front Back Pretty lively discussion going on over at SvN about the design, too.
Read More...I didn’t become a math and science nerd until later in life, which means my early attempts at grokking my multiplication tables were laughable. In third grade, Mr. Turnquist – easily the best teacher I had in all of my elementary school years – began drilling the “times tables” into us, thinking that our third-grade
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