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  • 01.30.2012 Why I’ve Learned To Do More Than Write Copy
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    Because there’s nothing as perfect as the initial idea. And the only reason I write and direct is to protect the writing, because that’s what’s most precious… You can be as good as anyone that ever lived. If you can read, you can learn everything that anyone ever learned. But […]

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  • 01.16.2012 Work alone. Not on a committee. Not on a team.
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    From Susan Cain’s The Rise of the New Groupthink: – Research strongly suggests that people are more creative when they enjoy privacy and freedom from interruption. And the most spectacularly creative people in many fields are often introverted… – Conversely, brainstorming sessions are one of the worst possible ways to stimulate […]

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  • 12.26.2011 This is water.
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    From what may be my favorite piece of writing from DFW: The really important kind of freedom involves attention and awareness and discipline, and being able truly to care about other people and to sacrifice for them over and over in myriad petty, unsexy ways every day. – David Foster […]

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  • 12.12.2011 The Infinite Stupidity of Facebook
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    The interesting thing with Facebook is that, with 500 to 800 million of us connected around the world, it sort of devalues information and devalues knowledge. And this isn’t the comment of some reactionary who doesn’t like Facebook, but it’s rather the comment of someone who realizes that knowledge and […]

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  • 10.14.2011
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    I still don’t know whether or not to like an interesting article on a fascinating topic, my intended amour for the sentiment rather than the event. I’m not certain how my sarcasm is being met, nor if my lack of comment on the passing of a celebrity signals contempt for […]

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  • 07.29.2011 Skillshare is a Brilliant Idea, Should Come to Pittsburgh
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    Skillshare is a marketplace for offline classes. Anyone can create and sell tickets for a class. The minds behind the idea believe that everyone has valuable skills and knowledge to teach and the curiosity to keep learning new things. They also think that our neighborhoods, communities and cities are really the […]

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  • 07.14.2011 Because I Don’t Want to Forget This Wonderful Essay
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    And yet pain hurts but it doesn’t kill. When you consider the alternative — an anesthetized dream of self-sufficiency, abetted by technology — pain emerges as the natural product and natural indicator of being alive in a resistant world. To go through a life painlessly is to have not lived. […]

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