Life is too short
The Road to the Horizon (Free subscription) | yesterday
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the easy life
colouring outside the lines (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
I want to be just like Hugh MacLeod when I grow up. Instead I'm like me. These days being like me means injuring your fingers three times in one week, the last being the worst. I slammed my finger into my minivan's sliding door last night and followed that up with the doctor actually burning a hole in my fingernail to relieve blood/pressure. X-ray results not back yet. Like the cartoon above
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My last words
Jackie Danicki (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
One of my prized possessions is a drawing Hugh MacLeod did for me, based on what I was saying to him while he drew it. The man is a genius with one of the best hearts I know.
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"If you interact with things in your...
N=1 (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009
"If you interact with things in your life, everything is constantly changing. And if nothing changes, you're an idiot." Umberto Eco "Life is too short not to do something that matters" Hugh MacLeod "We think the Internet is moving completely toward mobile." Jeff Cole Today's image: otono by Darco TT . Beautiful. Thank you for sharing. The last post here included a mention...
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The Lateral Action Creative Entrepreneur Course Is Now Live
Wishful Thinking (Free subscription) | 22/11/2009
Image by Hugh MacLeod We’ve now started taking enrolments for the Lateral Action Creative Entrepreneur Course. The course is designed for: Artists and creative freelancers People looking to set up a home-based business Bloggers looking to build a business around their blog (If that doesn’t include you, you may want to skip this post — there are plenty more articles [...]
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Why Audience Matters
Ideas and Thoughts from an EdTech (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Cross posted at The Tech Learning Blog This facebook/twitter posting by Chris Lehmann got my attention. It's hard to argue with that statement and it raises some interesting questions and implications. It reminded me this cartoon by Hugh MacLeod (warning, Hugh as an affection for the f-bomb) It's powerful statement warning about our ability to connect and yet [...]
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Book Review: Ignore Everybody (and 39 Other Keys to Creativity)
bub.blicio.us (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
Coming from someone who is best known for doodling cartoons on business cards, Hugh MacLeod’s advice for developing creativity is not what you might expect. In “Ignore Everybody,” MacLeod shares 40 keys for fostering creativity, personal and professional success, and a variety of other life lessons. The lessons are augmented by colorful stories from Hugh’s personal [...]
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Big Room Blues?
AN AESTHETE'S LAMENT (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009
Italian aristocrat Donna Stefanella Vanni Calvello di San Vicenzo sprawls seductively across a velvet-draped divan in her family's palazzo in Palermo, Sicily, in 1984. Image by Slim Aarons. Call it a great room, a hall d'honneur, or whatever you will, the high, hulking spaces that form the heart of so many spec houses today are hellish to decorate. Thoughtless homeowners and homebuilders all cry, "We...
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The hour which belongs to me
bunnehmunches (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
Hugh MacLeod of gapingvoid fame wrote in his How to Be Creative manifesto posted in ChangeThis: If I was just starting out writing, say, a novel or a screenplay, or maybe starting up a new software company, I wouldn’t try to quit my job in order to make this big, dramatic, heroic-quest thing about it.I would do something far simpler: I would find that extra hour or two in the day that belongs...
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Edelman EMEA ad (redux)
sixtysecondview (Free subscription) | 09/11/2009
With grateful thanks as ever to Hugh MacLeod.
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“Change is not death. Fear of change is death.” — Hugh MacLeod
The Young Professional Blogs Aggregator (Free subscription) | 08/11/2009
I’ve heard a lot of talk recently about companies banning social media in the workplace and recently I came across this article on Socialnomics. “The USA Today reported on October 22, 2009 in their Snapshot®* that 54% of companies completely block Facebook, whereas another 35% apply some form of limits. That leaves only 11% that don’t [...]
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Vince Lombardi Headed to Broadway
The FanHouse - Kansas City Chiefs (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
by Tom Ziller Filed under: NFL Richard Sandomir of the New York Times reports that on Monday producers will announce plans to take a play based on the life of Vince Lombardi to Broadway . The play, adapted by a Packers fan, will be based on David Maraniss's respected Lombardi bio When Pride Still Mattered , a tome considered more nuanced than you'd expect given the mythical aura surrounding the legendary...
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New biz markets fashionable clothes for fat girls
The-F-Word.org (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
While still sadly lagging in both range and affordability, plus-size clothing has come a long way from the shapeless elastic pants and sack-like tops usually reserved for fat teens and women (find great plus-size fashion tips and reviews at Pretty Pear or Young, Fat and Fabulous). Yet there still seems to be a relative dearth of similar fashionable options for the 6 million overweight kids in the U.S....
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Amazon.com: Best Books of 2009
Off On A Tangent (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
Congratulations to my friends Chris Brogan and Julien Smith for having their book Trust Agents: Using the Web to Build Influence, Improve Reputation, and Earn Trust chosen as one of the Top 10 Books in Business & Investing . I'm very excited for them. I'm also happy to see Ignore Everybody: and 39 Other Keys to Creativity by Hugh MacLeod in the same Top 10 list. My book, Get Seen: Online Video...
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Halloween Blawg Review
Blawg Review (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
I don't know if Eric Turkewitz remembers me suggesting he use this one of Hugh MacLeod's Gaping Void cartoons on the back of a business card for his "blog card". This week, Eric tries to find happiness hosting his third Blawg Review, this time with a Halloween theme. I rest my case.