You have to go there, you know. You have to take your character to the place where he just can’t take it anymore. You’ve been there, haven’t you? You’ve been out on the ledge. The marriage is over now; the dream is over now; nothing good can come from this.”
Robert McKee
Reading through Don’s Million Miles in a Thousand Years in preparation for a talk I’m giving. Such a fun book to read.
There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one’s self.”
Benjamin Franklin
Every product you work on should offer your prospect two separate and distinct reasons for buying it. First, it should offer him the fulfillment of a physical want or need. This is the satisfaction your product gives him. And second, it should offer him a particular method of fulfilling that need, that defines him to the outside world as a particular kind of human being.”
Eugene M. Schwartz
You must make the product interesting, not just make the ad different. And that’s what too many copywriters in the U.S. today don’t yet understand.”
Rosser Reeves, about 30 years ago
Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage.”
Rainer Maria Rilke
It’s easier to bleed than to sweat, Mr. Motes.”
Flannery O’Connor
NOTE: this no longer works. So I started syncing my downloads folder to iCloud using these steps:
Stuff that no longer works:
You can use Dropbox to sync things outside your Dropbox folder using a little Linux wizardry.
Sync Mac Desktop with Dropbox:
Open terminal and type this and hit enter:
ln -s ~/Desktop ~/Dropbox
Sync Mac Downloads with Dropbox:
ln -s ~/Downloads ~/Dropbox
Done and done.
Pro tip: the first path is the source, the second is the target container you want to choose (not a copy of the source itself on dropbox). Read here for more info on this.
I do the same thing to sync my MAMP folder on my mac through Dropbox:
ln -s /Applications/MAMP/db ~/Dropbox/Apps/MAMP
And to sync my Wiretap Studio library:
ln -s ~/Documents/WireTap\ Studio\ Library.wtpl ~/Dropbox/Apps
Tenacity is when you’ve got enough balls to start something and then you’re too stupid to quit when you realize you shouldn’t have started in the first damn place.”
“In 1999, lost his son to suicide. A few years later he lost his daughter to a drug overdose. At sixty-four years old, he has walked across the United States seven times to raise awareness for depression and suicide and to inspire people he meets to “love life.”
This was, just… when he cries… his language… i just… the juxtaposition of how he looks, the down to earth idioms, his story, the simple quest he’s on and the handful of moments of free-flow beatnik poetry… this is magic.
…so they can go through that situation of pain and convert that damn evil, negative self pity into self reliance and go help others with it through nothing more than telling their own story.”
I recently was featured on serial geek David Spark’s blog showing and telling about the apps I use on my iPhone home screen.
There are worse ways to spend 10 minutes:
Chase Reeves’ Homescreen on MacSparky
Here’s the text from that for future posterity: (more…)