“People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing - that’s why we recommend it daily.” –Zig Ziglar
If you really, truly want to understand the core of innovation — if you want to get to the rich, creamy center of creativity then all you need do is to turn your gaze towards the [...]

Advertising Age has come out with a statistic that says that advertising, especially the CPM based advertising the keeps the gears of Internet content production well oiled is failing. The percentage drop in CPM (cost per thousand impressions) rates is not terribly important, if you’re interested read about it here. What is vastly more important [...]

I’m a big fan of being your own worst critic, I don’t think it’s possible to survive and grow as a creator of any kind if you don’t really, truly, deep down inside hate everything that you do. It’s seeing yourself with the eyes of your detractors and it’s critically important.

“Once upon a time, there was a caveman named Fred. (I refuse to name him “Oog” or something, just on principle.) Fred was a very bright guy, but he had absolutely no knowledge of the laws of nature. Please don’t ask how poor Fred managed to grow up this way: it’s a sad sort of [...]

Last night I spent some time talking about how much money you need to be happy. There were mixed responses to my claim that there is an alternative to the payscale grind. All of the responses were reasonable (and I learned that you guys really, really like to travel) but none were more pointed than [...]

Earlier this week I was talking to a friend of mine about why, practically speaking, we work. I don’t mean why we do whatever it is that we really do, I mean why we keep up our day jobs. Underneath it all, it comes back to a very simple precept — you need money to [...]

Tonight I have a question for you — what is it that you do? I am not talking about your day job, though that is part of it. I want to know what the first thing you think about when you get up in the morning. Is it providing for your family? Finishing the last [...]