Pass Along Your Best Stories
Images corrupt and apps are unreliable. Your backups may not be backing up what you thought. Websites suffer neglect. A few years after you die, your files may not even be readable, if someone even cares to look after them. The truth is, there’s no such thing as an
Free Time
Most people will tell you the thing they want most is more free time. But they never keep it free once they get it. Work to live [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZv3HZvoFTg].
Access To Tools Is Easier Too Every Digital Tool
> “Access to tools is easier too. Every digital tool in the world is easily available, often for free…Alas, the only access that’s harder than ever is access to the part of your brain that’s willing to take advantage of all of this.” — - Seth Godin(This
Get Booed Off Stage At Least Once
> “Get boo’ed off stage at least once.” — Carl King [https://twitter.com/#!/carlking/status/160103367761334273]
The Law of Productivity Methods
All productivity methods tend to ensure efficient completion of unnecessary tasks.
Websites are Billboards
Most people spend just seconds looking at a billboard. Most people spend just second looking at a website. Wouldn’t it be great if more websites were designed like billboards? Easy is never easy enough.
11 Random Thoughts From an Amateur Photographer
“Just because you’re a photographer doesn’t mean every conversation has to revolve around the subject. Photography might be what you pursue but having a life outside of it is what ultimately serves as an inspiration for what you do with the camera.”
Innovation
This week you’ll hear a lot about innovation in photography on your favorite blogs. Unfortunately, they’re talking about innovations in objects, not ideas. How much time could you save and how much more could you learn, if you tuned out the blogs that fall in love with objects?
52 Tiger
I’m appearing on 3 episodes this week of the 52 Pickup podcast, a members only podcast, from the excellent tech blog 52 Tiger [http://52tiger.net/]. If you support great writing and unobtrusive tech blogs, it’s worth becoming a member (I did on day one). We’re talking
Reshoot Your Archives
My best friend, Tom [http://www.flickr.com/people/whtsoxfan/], had a house fire in the 90s that destroyed all of his photos and negatives (during his most prolific period as an enthusiastic young hobbyist). As a result, he developed an entirely different way of approaching archivism and we all