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Exposing Yourself to Positive Black Swans | via: The Blog of J.D. Moyer

What’s the takeaway?  If you’re lucky enough to have an activity that excites and inspires you, then put in the time and put in the money.  There’s zero risk if you enjoy the activity itself (the means is the end), and you expose yourself to the possibility of luck and success.  Success comes unevenly, so 99% of  your efforts might yield zero rewards.  But that 1% — the black swan event — can make it … Continue reading →

Genius | via paulcooljmans.com

Genius is the high end of the dimension of creativity. Creativity in turn is the expression (effect, result, projection) of awareness. Awareness is what the individual experiences inside one’s mind (the experience of experience itself; the being aware of the fact that one or anything exists), while creativity is what others perceive when observing that individual. Awareness and creativity are the inner and outer aspects of the same thing. One’s creativity is a measure of … Continue reading →

Yes | The Jack Of All Trades – via (O.A.T.)

“A jack of all trades, master of none, often times better than a master of one.” “I don’t get it.” “It’s okay, I will let it sink in.” “I am not niave…” “No, you aren’t but you also miss the point.  People are driven by passions, and if they so happen to be passionate about creating, then it’s misguided people like yourself that assume having more than one passion is a bad thing. It’s assumed … Continue reading →

Time Is Money | via A Newbie’s Guide to Publishing

Time=money.First, it’s important to understand that in traditional publishing (which my friend Barry Eisler calls “Legacy Publishing”), time moves slowly. When your agent sells you novel, it can take several months to get the contract. Once you sign the contract, it can be months before you’re paid. Once you turn in the manuscript, it can be months, or even over a year, before your book is published. The large, inefficient, unwieldy industry that is legacy … Continue reading →

Charlatan, Martyr, Hustler | via Joey Roth

via joeyroth.com This is brilliant.

Ten Bucks | via Phil Baumann (on owning your business critical assets)

Here’s an excerpt from something so good I wish I would have written it myself. You’re a fool if you don’t click over and read the rest. It doesn’t matter if you’re a one-person shop or a multi-billion dollar company, there’s one facet of the Web that puts us all on parity: for ten bucks you can buy your own domain. You can have a million followers on Twitter but you still don’t own your … Continue reading →

How Much Can You Take? | via The eBook Test

So consider this: if all those crybabies with the millions of dollars of budgets, well-known brand names, and corporate structures and connections are having trouble connecting — how much harder will it be for you, a solitary, unknown, “brandless” writer? And I mean writer — not some yutz who got it in his or her otherwise empty yet cheerful noggin that he/she could suddenly put down words on a screen or page and compete against … Continue reading →