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Wufoo - free online forms. Might come in handy

Wed, 22 Feb 2012 10:18:36 +0000

Wufoo - free online forms. Might come in handy

Ira Glass on creative judgement

Mon, 20 Feb 2012 14:32:00 +0000

This helps me when I am kicking myself in frustration…

“Nobody tells this to people who are beginners, I wish someone told me. All of us who do creative work, we get into it because we have good taste. But there is this gap. For the first couple years you make stuff, it’s just not that good. It’s trying to be good, it has potential, but it’s not. But your taste, the thing that got you into the game, is still killer. And your taste is why your work disappoints you. A lot of people never get past this phase, they quit. Most people I know who do interesting, creative work went through years of this. We know our work doesn’t have this special thing that we want it to have. We all go through this. And if you are just starting out or you are still in this phase, you gotta know its normal and the most important thing you can do is do a lot of work. Put yourself on a deadline so that every week you will finish one story. It is only by going through a volume of work that you will close that gap, and your work will be as good as your ambitions. And I took longer to figure out how to do this than anyone I’ve ever met. It’s gonna take awhile. It’s normal to take awhile. You’ve just gotta fight your way through.”

"our firm's reputation for providing quality service reflects the high standards we demand of ourselves. our high standards, responsive service and specialized staff spell the difference between our firm and the rest" - Google Search

Sat, 11 Feb 2012 21:58:49 +0000

"our firm's reputation for providing quality service reflects the high standards we demand of ourselves. our high standards, responsive service and specialized staff spell the difference between our firm and the rest" - Google Search:

Handy search for anyone writing corporate copy

Google Maps: Designing the Modern Atlas - Core77

Mon, 09 Jan 2012 20:41:59 +0000

Google Maps: Designing the Modern Atlas - Core77:

Perfect article for a qualified geographer working at TribalDDB. (Btw, that’s me.)

Advice to Sink in Slowly

Mon, 09 Jan 2012 10:32:05 +0000

Advice to Sink in Slowly:

Posters to encourage and guide students. Appeals to me too.

The odrer of wrods is umnpotrinnat

Wed, 04 Jan 2012 14:45:28 +0000

The odrer of wrods is umnpotrinnat

Happy new year. Here’s Woody Guthrie’s resolutions...

Tue, 03 Jan 2012 14:57:26 +0000

Happy new year. Here’s Woody Guthrie’s resolutions from 1942. Not so far from some of my own.

How to read a book

Mon, 19 Dec 2011 09:32:26 +0000

There is a book on how to read a book. Originally written by Mortimer Adler in 1940 and revised with Charles van Doren in 1972 they say:

When you buy a book, you establish a property right in it, just as you do in clothes or furniture when you buy and pay for them. But the act of purchase is actually only the prelude to possession in the case of a book. Full ownership of a book only comes when you have made it a part of yourself, and the best way to make yourself a part of it – which comes to the same thing – is by writing in it.

Why is marking a book indispensable to reading it?

First, it keeps you awake – not merely conscious, but wide awake.

Second, reading, if it is active, is thinking, and thinking tends to express itself in words, spoken or written. The person who says he knows what he thinks but cannot express it usually does not know what he thinks.

Third, writing your reactions down helps you to remember the thoughts of the author.

(From the ever-clever @brainpicker)

Not sure how this works on a Kindle, although I bet a start up has an idea.

On a related note, I was given a pencil sharpener yesterday and have been having a lovely time sharpening pencils, you can’t do that on Evernote.