My goal here is look a wee bit deeper into situations we've all been in and form a conclusion that we can all argue about. Bottom..
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getting past the gap
Published on 2011-12-05 23:42:00
I'd been a big admirer of a blogger named Dustin Curtis, and sometime back, he wrote this post, about not being able to create anything new. It moved me, and I responded to it. Here's what I wrote to Dustin (email intro omitted):--I think the first step to escaping 'the gap' is to accept it, fully and immediately. Now, without hesitation. What often paralyzes us is a fear that the product of our hardest labors won't meet others' standards, or worse yet, our own. Thus, in fear, we avoid prod
staying in the fire
Published on 2011-12-03 21:39:00
A friend recently told me about something that was making him unhappy. He works for an event production company in which his role is to first find clients and sell his company’s services, and then to execute the projects he sells. In this industry, one project rarely leads to another, which means he starts from square-one every time – he likened it to the stress of finding a new career every few months. The worst part is that after all his hustle, he only gets a small percentage of the co
destroying to create & improve
Published on 2011-12-01 21:38:00
In both writing and design, I often find that in order to take a step forward, I must completely abandon everything I’ve already created. This means that either I start again from scratch, or I take the pieces of what I have and totally mangle them until I’ve arrived somewhere vastly different from where I began. Why is this important? I find that little tweaks and edits are easy, but they rarely result in a huge step forward. Tweaks help optimize something into the best form it can be,
