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I’ve heard it said that YouTube is the world’s #2 search engine. This alone is cause for pause. But then I saw two posts within a few hours of each other. Bob Lefsetz posted to “forget Vimeo” and that “YouTube wins.” I’ll admit it. I like the clean interface of vimeo and the fact that…
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You have no idea what you are capable of.
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I’ve heard this advice in many different ways. Do the hardest thing first. Or maybe something like this, Pick one or two (maybe even three) things that are essential to you and focus on making them happen. Let everything else be up for discussion. But this was a new one to me. Swallow a…
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A riff on the Gape Into the Void podcast: http://gapingvoid.com/2013/02/03/episode9/
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Sometime last fall I started thinking of 2013 as “Fail Year.” And no, I don’t mean it in a negative way at all. First, what does it mean? Fail Year is about: being willing to try something that might not work being vulnerable embracing risk choosing projects wisely choosing boundaries that can allow projects to fail without…
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I’m grateful for people like Seth Godin, Chris Brogan & Brene Brown. They challenge us to ask hard questions about how we approach our work. Largely due to their influence, I have three simple questions that I want to ask myself more often: 1. What am I afraid of? 2. How can I be more…
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This afternoon I had a studio shoot for a television program. I record the audio with dual redundancy. It gets recorded with the main video feed, then I record it into a computer and also into this recorder pictured. A couple hours after the shoot, I realized that I forgot to turn this recorder off.…
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Chuck Close is an artist. He recently wrote a retrospective note to his 14 year old self as part of a CBS series. He writes: Inspiration is for amateurs — the rest of us just show up and get to work. Every great idea I’ve ever had grew out of work itself. Sign on to…
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Yes. I’m going to try the newsletter thing. Part of it could very well be that I am looking for a simple way to start to engage people online. And an email newsletter seems to fit a lot of what I want to accomplish. For the most part it’s simply a way to engage a…
