One of my favorite topics of all time is a discussion around cities. What cities do you love and what do you get when you go to individual cities?* This Paul Graham essay is a great conversation starter on this. He asks the question: What does a city whisper to you? After traveling for 2 1/2 years, I had a list of some of my favorite cities - but I became caught up looking for the perfect one. I've got a lot of places with memories and it was ...
Archives for May 2019
How You Do Anything is How You Do Everything
You are what you do. Every time you act, you create a habit - even if it’s a small one. “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then is not an act but a habit.” - Aristotle Everything you do is practice for who you are becoming. You are not the product of your dreams, your desires, your potential or what you could be someday, somehow, in the perfectly right environment. You are what you do. You are the culmination of your ...
Drop a Plane out Of The Sky
One of the best pieces of advice on getting "unstuck" in life I've ever heard was from Donald Miller - I've filed it away in my head as the "drop a plane out of the sky" rule. When it comes to writing characters - Don had a conversation about taking one of the characters to the next stage of the story with some more experienced writers. He thought the reason the character would change and move on was because "he wanted to." “That’s not how it ...
Are You Trying To Be Funny Instead of Good?
I’ve written and re-written this a couple times, but this post made me finish this out. The world wants you to be average. There’s been a subtle shift - the world won't say "average" but the world of instagram manages to perpetuate a message of “be aspirational in exactly the same way everybody else is." And if you can't do that - try to be funny. But it's hard to do hard stuff. And talk is cheap. So, what you end up with is a bunch of people afraid to ...
