Living Grateful
Snippets to remind myself for self-improvement, self-development, and just being a better person.
Ondrej David
Re: The Creative Act: A Way of Being by Rick Rubin
Be playful as you surf the unordained waters of the Universe.
Re: Several short sentences about writing by Verlyn Klinkenborg
I’ve picked up Several short sentences on recommendation by Jason Fried (37 Signals, Basecamp). Jason has this unique down to earth/common sense demeanor I have always found refreshing in the tech startup space.
In my mind he’s the Knight of early Nike’s days, when they’ve
Hell Yeah or No by Derek Sivers
About the Book
Sivers writes succinct lessons he took on throughout his travels. Reads like lite Meditations, with philosophy of Alan Watts and a few key self-help books of the last three decades. Most of the writing resonates with me, as I concluded similarly on what my core believes of
Storyworthy by Matthew Dicks
Dicks had quite a life. Moments born out of consequence read like Larry David’s Curb Your Enthusiasm. Over the stretched 300 pages he does a good job of persuading me that you don’t have to be clinically dead, or be publicly slandered for a crime you didn’t
Know What You're Selling
Let's get some things straight from the get go.
* You are running a business if your self-employment pays the bills. Businesses must adhere to the terrible truths of capitalism or will go under.
* Generalization more or less works and makes it easier to get to a point. Of
What are Packaged Experiences
Last time I was talking about better understanding what videogames are sold as.
In short I brought up a term "Packaged Experience" which is similar to "Product" in the context of games, movies or other creative and entrainment media. Let's break down why I