SUMMARY: Buddy Brad reminds me that making a living from one's "art" is hard work, but once you get something working you should continue to do it until it's exhausted. It makes sense, but there are a few mental hangups that I need to overcome as well. One is preciousness, and the other is perfectionism.
SUMMARY: In the interest of doing something different today, I tweeted a request for a silly idea to write about. This post is a collection of musings about levitating clams, in response to DIYSara's quick response.
SUMMARY: I find that the common-sense rules for success are worth following after all, now that I've talked to enough about the nuts and bolts of creative people and their businesses to understand just how the rules actually work together.
SUMMARY: Jeff Ngan, fellow blogger and online friend, pays me a surprise visit in my home town, and we confirm that yes, we are destined to be buddies.
Last week, Sid and I were at the local Jelly and I decided to test our mobile podcasting setup. We did a quick test to see it everything worked (it did), and for the next 20 minutes the studio director and I had a fun conversation about my terrible diction and how to improve it. And as always happens at the Jelly, the conversation detoured through the French language, music, and recollection of foreign lands. If you'd like to hear it, check out JellyCast! Language Lessons at the Nashua Jelly, freshly posted in our Podcast blog.
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SUMMARY: In my first Groundhog Day Resolution Review for 2009, I lay out a heady set of plans for the coming month, expanding on the themes from February 2nd to become more specific about what I want to do.
SUMMARY: I got together with blogger Stephen Smith in Concord, NH, to have an informal knowledge sharing session. I came away with a very clear understanding of how I could start to create better products from doing what I already do in a way that won't make me feel like I'm selling out.
SUMMARY: In our recent Collective meeting, I gained insight into the difference between Art and Craft, which helped me to understand how to separate my passion from what I need to sell. It's a slightly-different model than "follow your bliss" or "do what your passion is" in that it seems more implementable.
SUMMARY: I thought I didn't get anything done last week, but after listing everything that happened it's apparent that I'm actually pretty active. What creates the feeling of non-productivity is not the general lack of continuity, but the lack of measurable distance traveled on the metric that is most on my mind: funding all the things that I do every week that make the journey interesting and exciting. In this article, I lay out the services that I think are viable offerings for 2010 and how they relate to my mission.
SUMMARY: If you're interested in ordering an Emergent Task Planner Pad from outside the United States, read this post and help me understand what you need.
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