Recently readMy friend Ben Casnocha makes a very important point about creativity: You have to be willing to fail most of the time in order to knock it out of the park on a consistent basis. To illustrate, consider The Onion:
[T]o get the 18 quality headlines needed for each week’s edition, the writers have to propose […]
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And rightfully, gloriously so. I will always read any Barber interview, because she is blunt enough to call it the way she sees it - and shrewd enough to see it correctly, most times. So it is with former deputy prime minister John Prescott, who always did strike me as one of the biggest class […]
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I’ve personally been asked hundreds of times when Qik would be available for BlackBerry devices. As any mobile or BlackBerry geek knows, this requires some hardcore magic. Well, we got there!
Like I’m constantly telling our developers, who are deeply clever and incredibly hardworking (both massive understatements), they make my job pretty easy. All I […]
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I’m now ready to give it all up to be a beach bum. (All photos here.)
Many thanks to the Webby Awards for footing the bill for my three nights at the Ritz-Carlton. It was an…interesting weekend.
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Withhold admiration from a narcissist and be disliked. Give it and be treated with indifference.
-Mason Cooley
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Sunset over Laguna Niguel, California - taken at the Ritz-Carlton, where I’m speaking at the WebbyConnect conference.
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Sounds right to me. The real trick is retaining the benefits of the pathology while ridding oneself of the many crippling elements…
I think depression is examination you can’t turn off: Once you start the examination you can’t stop it, and it kind of settles on you. But if you can somehow change the spigot you […]
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Don’t get me wrong: I absolutely love California life, but I pine for lots of places on various continents at all times (and probably always will). Mostly I miss my friends in Cincy. That said, autumn in the 513 is certainly the best part of the year there. (I also needed something vaguely happy to […]
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Anyone who might think this is over the top cannot have spent much time in the UK.
A government spokesman was keen to point out that the scheme does not cover just financial guarantees. “It’s really everything. In a trial in the midlands, we guaranteed everything from a senior citizen’s gall bladder operation to the […]
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I am in the advertising industry and most of the ads for sub-prime loans had dried up before the recent bail-out bill. As soon as that went through the volume for these ads went up 10 times. Whatever the government did to “fix” the problem ain’t working because all they did was just give everyone […]
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The Webby Awards’ annual conference, WebbyConnect, is coming up this week in Laguna Niguel. The line-up of presenters is really quite something - plus, I’ll be speaking on Friday about the future of the mobile web. Tickets cost $2350, but if you can’t make it to the Ritz-Carlton (it’s too late to register now), I’m […]
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To create is to potentially embarrass oneself in front of others. It is about the courage to be oneself and to be seen as oneself. Putting ink to a page, or pressing one’s fingers against clay, or typing a line of computer code, or blowing glass and realizing mistake. Or success. With everyone watching. But […]
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Guy Herbert, one of the brightest minds of my London circle (all of whom I really miss):
Corporate industrialists are frequently not keen on free markets. They are fond of order, safety, and “fairness” or “a level playing-field” - which means everybody doing things the same way they do. They like a managed world, because management […]
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I wonder this about so many stories that make a headline splash. I’m not the only one.
It’s hard for me to forget how keenly I felt the loss of Cathy in the weeks after she died. For some reason, it’s no more believable to me now that she’s really gone. From time to time, […]
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