Entries Below Are About The Topic Of doing-what-matters

Better — Merlin Mann

“To be hon­est, I don’t have a spe­cific agenda for what I want to do all that dif­fer­ently, apart from what I’m already try­ing to do every day:

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 that because I didn’t go to school for … Con­tinue read­ing

How to Make Trillions of Dollars | via Rap​ti​tude​.com

If you’re a writer, or other indie-creative, I think you’ll really enjoy­ing read­ing the rest of this arti­cle here. Awe­some stuff. Here’s just a taste: Using the tele­vi­sion as their pri­mary tool, very-high-level mar­keters have man­aged to cre­ate a nation of peo­ple who typ­i­cally: work almost all the time absorb sev­eral hours of adver­tis­ing every night, in their own homes are tired and unhealthy and vaguely dis­sat­is­fied with their lives respond to bore­dom, dis­sat­is­fac­tion, or anx­i­ety only by buy­ing and con­sum­ing things have … Con­tinue read­ing