Ron White on Who He’s Gonna Be
“I’m gonna be myself and see who dances.”
Myke Cole on Meeting the Pros
Bloge, the patron saint of bloggers
James Rhodes on Getting Good
“What if, rather than paying £70 a month for a gym membership that delights in making you feel fat, guilty and a world away from the man your wife married you bought a few blank canvases and some paints and spent time each day painting your version of “I love you” until you realised that any woman worth keeping would jump you then and there just for that, despite your lack of a six-pack?”
This was a very fk’n good article. Marked as editor’s pick so I come back to it again and again.
Charles Bukowski on Doing What You Love
“My dear, find what you love and let it kill you. Let it drain from you your all. Let it cling onto your back and weigh you down into eventual nothingness. Let it kill you, and let it devour your remains.
For all things will kill you, both slowly and fastly, but it’s much better to be killed by a lover.
Falsely yours,
Henry Charles Bukowski”
This being attributed to Bukowski is suspect. Whatever. Still great.
Be of Use
Most of my
Fantasies are…
To be of use
To be of some hard, simple,
Undeniable use
Like a spindle
Like a candle
Like a horseshoe
Like a corkscrew
To be of use
To be of use.via Austin Kleon
Zach Klein on Pitching
You need to do whatever you need to do to get in the same room with the sort of people that would care to be members of the community you want to build. The pitch shouldn’t be hard after that…”
Pressfield on Perfect
The pursuit of perfect is Resistance. We’re coloring within the lines so the teacher won’t yell at us.”
A brief intro to EDM music (and trancey productivity)
In the deepness of the introduction sound, right around 12 seconds in… you know how you can feel the space the melody starts to make? That stretching out, the emotion? That’s what made me fall in love with electronic dance music. It turns me into a fired up 6 year old.
I love how in this video they juxtapose the bigness of Above & Beyond’s sound with the smallness, the human-ness of these individuals… and the ABSOLUTE GLEE MAKING dancing of the indian family… and the focus of the runner…
I’ve been geeking out about this electronic music stuff since my first DJ Shadow napster steal. But I just recently went to my first show and had a much better time than I expected I would.
It’s great music to work to… if you haven’t yet, here’s my recommendations on where to start:
Above & Beyond’s Group Therapy Podcast. (Mixcloud, iTunes) Above & Beyond are, by far and away, my favorite crew to listen to. They just seem to have a greater sense of emotion and meaning in their music than other EDM artists. This free podcast is the best 2 hours of music you can buy. I typically listen to each episode 3 or 4 times as I’m working. That’s definitely one reason I’ve fallen so hard for this music.
Gareth Emery Podcast. (Site, iTunes) Gareth tends to mix in more heavy “bangers” than A&B but his mixes are always great.
Will Ferrell on His Dad’s Best Advice
I had lunch with my dad one day and said, ‘hey, I’m going to try to go for this… whatever that means, I don’t know. Got any advice for me?’ And he gave me some of the best advice… He said:
‘If it was all based on talent, I wouldn’t worry about you, you’d be fine. But you have to remember: there’s a lot of luck. If you get to a point 3 years, 4 years, 5 years from now, and you feel like it’s too hard… don’t worry about quitting, don’t feel like you failed and it’s okay to pick up something different.’”
Take the pressure off, turkey. There’s a lot of luck involved. Enjoy the work and give it a good go.