via Seth's BlogKeith Richards tells a great story about Charlie Watts, legendary drummer for the Stones. After a night of drinking, Mick saw ...
History doesn’t always repeat itself
via Seth's Blog...but it usually rhymes. There's a tendency to confuse the next big thing with the one, it, the last big thing, the end of the ...
Defining quality
via Seth's BlogGiven how much we talk about it, it's surprising that there's a lot of confusion about what quality is. What's a higher quality ...
Interesting & Interested
via Seth's Blog... it helps to be both. These are the two ways you earn attention. If it's so obvious, why is it so difficult?
Naive or professional?
via Seth's BlogThe naive farmer farms as his parents, grandparents and great grandparents did. She plants, hopes and harvests. Anything that ...
The overwhelming fear of being wrong
via Seth's BlogShe didn't vote because she was afraid her candidate would lose. He complains that the blog is being published too often and ...
When is it due?
via Seth's BlogHere's the schedule. Follow it. There's your in box. Empty it. When something is imminent, speed up. When you're off the ...
Writing naked (nakeder than Orwell)
via Seth's BlogHere are Orwell's rules, edited: 1. Never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in ...
Dependency on external motivation
via Seth's BlogOne of the characteristics of the industrial age was the reliance on external motivation. Go to work on time or the boss will ...
Email checklist (maybe this time it’ll work!)
via Seth's BlogThree years ago this week, I posted this checklist, in the naive hope that it would eliminate (or perhaps merely reduce) the ...
The game theory of discovery and the birth of the free-gap
via Seth's BlogIt all started because of the discovery problem. Too many things to choose from, more every day. No efficient way to alert the ...
If you’re going to work…
via Seth's Blogwork hard. That way, you'll have something to show for it. The biggest waste is to do that thing you call work, but to ...