July 2011
16 posts
To spec or not to spec, that is the question.
Seth Godin, you’ve done it again. You, master of poking the box have beat me to a post I’ve been talking about writing for months now! How do you do that?
In your post, you make the argument that spec work, or the decision to work or contribute your talents for free (for whatever reason), should be handled on a case-by-case basis. And though I’ve been afraid to say it, for fear...
“The difficulty of always feeling that you ought to be doing something is that...”
– Brian Eno (via austinkleon)
“When I’m working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to...”
– Buckminster Fuller
WatchAnother inspiring CreativeMornings talk by Ji Lee, the new Creative Director at Facebook (and former Creative Director at Google), on the power and importance of doing personal projects in addition to “your work.”
“Anyone who tries to make a distinction between education and entertainment...”
– Marshall McLuhan
“Julia had always assumed that meanings and concepts came through language, but...”
– From The Social Animal by David Brooks
“I invented nothing new. I simply assembled the discoveries of other men behind...”
– Henry Ford, quoted in Everything is a Remix Part 3 (via austinkleon)
