Helping Creative People Create

From the monthly archives:

January 2010

Here are some recent articles from around the web that will amaze, plus an update on the new LifeDev design.

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Honest Abe knew a thing or two about becoming authoritative. But probably not in the way you’d expect.

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Downtown Port-Au-Prince after the massive earthquake in Haiti. My friends Carolyn and Doug are incredible people, and I don’t think I’ve ever looked up to two people more. Doug and Carolyn work in a church, and if you’ve ever worked in a church you know that all kinds of needy people use (and abuse) the ...

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Photo by Anna Fischer I finished Gary Vaynerchuk’s Crush It! a while back, and surprisingly, I was a big fan. Nothing against @garyvee or course, it’s just that I had feared the book would mostly be an instructional for sites like YouTube. I was dead wrong. While the book does have beginner training on technologies ...

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Photo by seanmcgrath If anything, let 2010 mark the point in time where we stop relying on “experts”. Gone. Buh-bye. You see, the experts get us into trouble. They provide “insights” to guide our way when we think we don’t know the answer. Or they tell us we’re wrong. It never fails to amaze me ...

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Photo by Oncle Tom It’s really simple: You can’t become an expert until you’ve failed at something. Yet it’s funny how people with authoritative titles never talk about their mistakes. In fact, it’s a taboo. We want to put our trust in someone who’s more of an “expert” than us. It makes us feel safe ...

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