Fourth book finished this year. Another classic I had previously missed. Honestly, not quite sure how I feel about it yet. May have chosen the wrong time to read such subject matter. ?
You could witness the most precious moment of someone’s life, or read a news story about a horrifying and terribly sad event, or complete one of the most impressive accomplishments of your creative career… And somehow it’s never enough.
Seth Godin talks about the noise in our head and it turns out to be an excellent post about empathy.
The fanciness of your process only reveals your resistance to the dirtiness of the work.
Only the work is The Work. Everything else is an excuse.
How much does the world suck? According to Bill Gates, probably not as much as you think.
James Shelley explores what can be done about inherited privilege. I think the following post explains the problem and a way forward well.
Also good, the making of the Black Panther score.
This video of Black Panther’s Director Ryan Coogler breaking down a fight scene from the movie contains everything you need to understand about why this film resonates so deeply for we African-American folk. So deep. So good.
The secret to long lasting relationships may simply be kindness and generosity.
There’s a book in your blog.
If you haven’t noticed, perhaps because to my memory he has not explicitly stated it, Derek Sivers is writing a book about surviving in the music industry right in plain sight. Every post he’s made to his blog in the past several weeks is a chapter around this topic. I would not be surprised if he packages it up as a book at the end and sells it. I’m not a musician and I’d buy it just to support the idea.
I too have used this method. In fact, all but one of my books either started out as a blog post or are a collection of posts that are available for free, right now, on the web. Many of Seth Godin’s books fit this model too.
I not only have done this as a writer but I support it as a reader. I love the idea of being able to purchase a nicely curated and packaged collection of ideas. I don’t have to dig through a blog’s archive or skim through a category to get to the stuff I want. The author has done if for me and that is work worth paying for.