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Let’s give ’em something to talk aboutLet’s give ’em something to talk aboutLet’s give ’em something to talk aboutHow about love? -song, “Let’s Give Them Something To Talk About” by Bonnie Raitt “It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer ofContinue reading “Give Them Something To Talk About”

“How short-lived the praiser and praised, the one who remembers and the remembered. Remembered in some corner of these parts, and even there not in the same way by all, or even by one. And the whole earth is but a mere speck.” -Marcus Aurelius, Meditations When you seek praise, even if you get it,Continue reading “When You Don’t Seek Praise”

“Show me the incentive, and I will show you the outcome.” -Charlie Munger “Incentives: the most powerful force in the world. When the incentives are crazy, the behavior is crazy. People can be lead to justify and defend nearly anything.” -Morgan Housel, book Same As Ever: Timeless Lessons on Risk, Opportunity and Living a GoodContinue reading “Follow The Incentive”

“Dance like nobody is watching; love like you’ve never been hurt. Sing like nobody’s listening; live like it’s heaven on earth.” -Mark Twain Consistently making deadlines that others set for you (i.e. for your job) is a very important quality. It shows you’re reliable. You can be counted on to come through. Consistently making deadlinesContinue reading “Next Level Deadlines”

“Ease is a greater threat to progress than hardship.” -Denzel Washington “A blazing fire makes flame and brightness out of everything that is thrown into it.” -Marcus Aurelius “We don’t rise to the level of our expectations, we fall to the level of our training.” -Archilochus “A smooth sea never made a skilled sailor.” –FranklinContinue reading “Trials and Training”

Most highly successful people will underestimate how hard they worked at the beginning of their careers. Just like it takes an enormous amount of escape velocity to get a rocket to leave the earth’s atmosphere, the same holds true for any passion project, let alone building a career. Putting luck and circumstances aside, it takesContinue reading “Blast Off Vs. Orbit”

“If you do need to do research because parts of your story deal with things about which you know little or nothing, remember that word “back.” That’s where research belongs: as far in the background and the back story as you can get it. You may be entranced with what you’re learning about the flesh-eatingContinue reading “Exposed By Exposition”

“The opening night of Waiting For Lefty was one of the historical nights in the American theater. What happened was you were seeing theater at its most primitive. You were seeing it at its grandest, and most meaningful. After each scene the audience stopped the show, they got up, they began to cheer and weep.Continue reading “It Doesn’t Get Better Than This”

Sometimes you try and you fail. Good. You learned something. Trust that was what was supposed to happen. Go help someone else with what you learned. Sometimes you try and you succeed. Good. You learned something. Trust that was what was supposed to happen. Go help someone else with what you learned. Notice the twoContinue reading “Can You Find The Difference?”

“And the boy loved the tree…….very much. And the tree was happy.” -Shel Silverstein, The Giving Tree “And…and you know what, maybe I’m crazy. But when I walk through a forest that I saved, when I hear the sound of wind rustling in young trees, trees that I planted myself, I realize that I haveContinue reading “As Lovely As A Tree”