Scribbles

I get both optimistic and a little lost and hopeless now a days. What if I never do what I’m aiming to? What if I can’t catch up with the young ones of DGPLUG? What if the newer ones pass me right by as an old fogey? And somewhile ago, I’d read this. And this. And that got me thinking. I’ve been working for 20 years now. And when it comes to stuff I know, I know stuff. It’ll take any johnny-come-lately tonnes of effort (not to mention, how many hours of their life) to know what I know. ...

Started: 2018-03-18 Finished: 2018-03-19 I think most of my writing about books will be just short stabs like this. Or I’ll never get to anything in time. I was supposed to start with Perennial Seller and then this popped up and looked like less intensive, so I picked it up first. Well, it’s an awesome, racy read. And something only Ryan Holiday could have done justice to. He writes almost objectively, never hiding his biases. ...

I don’t how even after following Seth for so many years and manually scouring the net for everything the man has done and written, I only came across This is Broken1 a couple of days ago. If you are as big a Seth Godin fan as I, this is such an awesome resource to a huge amount of Seth’s work. Go, read. The name obviously, being an homage to this famous talk. ↩︎

One of Seth’s pithy posts. Quoted here in it’s entirety for me to remember The difference between time and money You can’t save up time. You can’t refuse to spend it. You can’t set it aside. Either you’re spending your time. Or your time is spending you.

I started writing regularly 26 days ago. I didn’t quite know what to expect, but I did know I wanted to build a practice of sticking to things; something I feel I’m sorely lacking in, as each new “ooh, shiny!” flits across my field of vision. And I know I want to build something like this! Nearly a month in, I think I’m barely scratching the surface. But it definitely isn’t as bad as it was when I started. And it definitely isn’t as bad as I thought it’d be. It’s beginning to feel like I can do this, but there is still quite a ways to go. ...

The world breaks everyone, and afterward many are strong in the broken places. — Ernest Hemingway