Tonight I offer you a lovely post by Shane of Shane and Peter about the process of learning to connect with other people. I have a sneaking suspicion that a lot of folks who read this blog (certainly the person who writes it) can identify with the gawky, geeky boy who didn't know how on earth to meet all of those other humans milling around him. … [Read more...] about A Manual for the Odd and Lonesome
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In Praise of Crazy Shit
Hugh McLeod announces that after the distraction of well-paid, interesting, rewarding work that's burning him out, he's going to refocus his attention on his cartoon blog, for which he makes basically peanuts. So he'll be scaling back what's probably a gigantically sweet deal with Microsoft. Scaling back the sexy, rewarding and highly visible work … [Read more...] about In Praise of Crazy Shit
Is Your Good Taste Costing You Customers?
Here's an entertaining video, well-crafted to be virally passed along. Your designer might already have sent it to you. It was passed along to me, I snickered, and sent it to some fellow marketing geeks in my office. You can study it as a useful example of how to make a video that will get passed along, and it does well at that. But I thought it … [Read more...] about Is Your Good Taste Costing You Customers?
The Absence of Fear is not Courage. The Absence of Fear is Mental Illness.
I am awfully pleased for my friend Naomi, who made the front page of Digg yesterday with this post: What to do when you're scared sh*tless. (Sphinn censored the name by dropping the last word, respectful asterisk and all. How sad is that? It's also a study in what differentiates a great headline from a mediocre one.) For those who will read … [Read more...] about The Absence of Fear is not Courage. The Absence of Fear is Mental Illness.
