Maximum Fun’s Greeting, Credo & Lifestyle
Our greeting: a double thumbs-up. Our credo: ‘Be More Awesome.’ Our lifestyle: ‘Maximum Fun.’ Throw caution to the wind, friend, and live The New Sincerity.”
Behind The Scenes There’s Work & Workers
Behind the scenes of incredible experiences and seamless experiences and beautiful things and families that love each other and relationships that work and sex where you don’t cry after it and things you’re proud of (and mind altering monster scenes) there is work and workers.
I so often see something great and think, “f*ck. That’s incredible. I’ll never build anything like that.”
Relax, these things take time. Don’t forget: there’s a man in there. (or a woman).
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The First Third of Every Project is Building Scaffolding
via Frank Chimero
Steve Jobs on the Secret
“Everything around you that you call life was made up by people that were no smarter than you.”
Steve Jobs
Mark Frauenfelder on the Barrier to Entry
“The only barrier to entry is how interesting you are.”
How To Connect With Anyone
“You and I have been able to connect because I wrote this and you’re reading it. That’s the web. Despite our different locations, devices, and time-zones we can connect here, on a simple HTML page.”
What a stellar fk’n reminder. We don’t “write HTML.” We don’t code or market or sell or “create content.” We share something with the world.
Ugh, read this whole thing and help me remember this.
Stephen Pressfield on Artistic Distance
“What helped me achieve artistic distance was I stopped writing about myself. I made a conscious decision that I would never again write anything that was “true.” I would work from the imagination only and from universes that had nothing to do with “mine.”
I also, though it took me years to realize this, made the decision to write for the reader, not for myself. I learned how to bounce back and forth in the working process between the right brain and the left, between the stuff that was coming unfiltered from the Muse and the stuff that I would ultimately put on the page.
I stopped caring what the reader thought of “me.” I took “me” out of the equation entirely.”
Patton Oswalt on Creativity in the Presence of Giants
“I’m even cool knowing my limitations within comedy. I think, after nearly 25 years pursuing my craft, that I’ve become very very good at this. But I’ll never be as good as Jim Gaffigan, or Louie CK or Paul F. Tompkins or Maria Bamford or Brian Regan. Never reach the plangent brilliance of a Richard Pryor or the surreal mastery of a Steve Martin. I’m okay with that. I still get to be creative – on my own terms, and purely on my own work.”
Jesse Thorn on the Opportunities
“The good news is that there are more opportunities than ever, and it’s a thousand percent possible for people for whom it was zero percent possible before. The bad news is that all this competition has driven prices down and people on the Internet don’t expect to pay for things. So there’s no perfect way to make money making media.”
Neil Gaiman On The Rules
“The main rule of writing is that if you do it with enough assurance and confidence, you’re allowed to do whatever you like. (That may be a rule for life as well as for writing. But it’s definitely true for writing.) So write your story as it needs to be written. Write it -honestly, and tell it as best you can. I’m not sure that there are any other rules. Not ones that matter.”