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- November 1, 2009
World Domination 101.04: Common Clarity
November 1, 2009Read moreSummary: I outline the essential element of clarity over planning for its own sake, and establish my next slightly-mad steps in moving ahead in my design business. (more…)
- November 1, 2009
Optimizing the Walk, not the Plan
November 1, 2009Read moreSummary: I’ve been preparing the relaunch of my design business, and have realized that the way I’m doing it may not be suited to my “natural strengths” (now that I have an inkling of what they are).
If this is the case, I need to think of optimal action as applying the skills I have WITHOUT planning, trusting that I have the training to do it right. If firefighters act this way, perhaps I can learn from their example. And this suggests a radical plan of action. (more…)
- October 31, 2009
Recycled Content Saturday: Some Old Stories
October 31, 2009Read moreSummary: I wrote some short stories back in 2006, and they are weird enough to share this October 31st. Not Halloween related at all, but I just felt like sharing them with an audience that may not have seen them before. It’s also a look into the way my mind works.
- October 28, 2009
Podcast 002: Fulfillment, Skeptics, and Wolves
October 28, 2009Read more
We have our second podcast available in the brand-spanking new podcast section of this site. The RSS feed for the podcast section is now iTunes Friendly, which means you can now directly subscribe to the podcast via the iTunes store.
Please jump to the new section to listen or read more about the podcast. Thanks!
- October 22, 2009
Podcast 001: Introducing Sid Ceaser and Dave Seah
October 22, 2009Read more
After the umpteenth animated discussion about how to make this “creativity” thing work, my buddy Sid Ceaser and I decided to do a podcast. So this afternoon, we pointed microphones at each other and chewed the fat for about an hour, covering such topics as photographer Chase Jarvis and his inspiring creed on creativity, sharing, and sustaining, Lindsay Lohan’s sudden aging, and my brief history in professional game development. Sadly, our inaugural session was marred by mysterious digital noise intermittently spread throughout the recording; instead of doing the minimal edit that I hoped, I have strung together 20 minutes of the surviving material into one conversation that covers, loosely, creativity and business. The session kicks off with Sid’s story about photographing Ben Slavin, whom Sid met at the Strobist meetup, prior to Ben’s motorcycle ride to the tip of South America, and from there we get into a general discussion about:
- How “being a part of it” is an important drive behind doing some of the creative things we do.
- The balance between the need to do art versus the necessity of commercializing it.
- Finding what you want to say and what you love to do, and having the guts to follow through.
- Daring to find your niche and stick to it.
This is, we hope, the first in a series of podcasts. We don’t have a name yet, nor do we have a particular focus, but I imagine we’ll be spending a lot of time talking about the people we know who are inspiring us, and what we’re doing ourselves to continue to be “a part of it.” We’re making it up as we go along.
Enjoy! Comments and suggestions welcome.
NOTE 10/28/2009: The RSS feed for the main website (davidseah.com) is not iTunes compatible. If you’d like to subscribe to the podcast, go to davidseah.com/podcast and subscribe using the RSS link there. The URL of the podcast RSS feed is davidseah.com/syndicated/podcast.
