The Royal College of Art is currently putting on its Graduate Show, of work by departing students.
Why are European designers so much better than Americans? The profession has pondered the…
The Royal College of Art is currently putting on its Graduate Show, of work by departing students.
Why are European designers so much better than Americans? The profession has pondered the…
Knowing what to ignore is and will become one of the most important skills for people to be effective, efficient, and creative in business and in life.
And, I would guess that this key skill is one that most of us (myself included) are terrible at. We pay attention to things that should be ignored and ignore things that need our attention. This only gets more difficult as our involvement in social media (and media more generally) increases.
I have no “solutions”, except trial and error and awareness or what neuroscientists refer to as Metacognition (term introduced to me by Jonah Lehrer).
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You know you’ve made it when you are considered an “accomplished whistler”. Even though it sounds silly, he is one heck of a whistler. |
| — | Part of Trent Reznor’s rant on Social Media and why he’s “signing off”. I agree. |
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More relevant now than it was when the talk was given (‘05).
Key quote: the secret to happiness is low expectations.
Like Mrs. Nichols, many people start blogs with lofty aspirations — to build an audience and leave their day job, to land a book deal, or simply to share their genius with the world. Getting started is easy, since all it takes to maintain a blog is a little time and inspiration. So why do blogs have a higher failure rate than restaurants?
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Judging from conversations with retired bloggers, many of the orphans were cast aside by people who had assumed that once they started blogging, the world would beat a path to their digital door.
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My opinion: most blogs are abandoned because most people have unrealistic expectations for what their blog will achieve. |


