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Perfect Photos

This is the video of the Ignite talk I did on how to take perfect photos every time.

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Productivity Kills Creativity

That’s the core idea behind the book, Autopilot [http://www.orbooks.com/catalog/autopilot/], a science-based rebuttal to GTD, Six Sigma and the modern glamification of productivity. I had a hard time figuring out if I liked the book, because, while the science seems solid, it’s delivered with

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How to Make Perfect Photos

What's the secret to creating great photos? The biggest secret is that you're already making perfect photos. You've been told that you're not, because of the second biggest secret: the teaching of photography has always and will always make more money than

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Unrecorded Podcast: Self Rescuing Princess

Kelly Guimont talks a mile a minute and lives at an even more frantic pace. We try to keep up with her and find ourselves awash in geekery.

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Instagram As Fine Art

I'm picking on this woman, because she just happened to state, very clearly, a sentiment I've heard quite a bit lately. > "It is easy to take a good picture and so hard, almost impossible, to take a great picture. It takes years of labor

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Unrecorded Podcast: Like a Salon

Glenn Fleishman joins us to discuss furnaces and stuff. You know, the typical kinds of things guys discuss when no one is recording.

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Undone

“Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone.” – Lin Yutang [http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Lin_Yutang]

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Libraries Used to Look Like This

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Why Paper Still Matters

After seeing a Kickstarter, a week or so ago, for a hybrid digital/analogue notebook [http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/marshallhaas/draft-a-physical-notebook-that-syncs-to-the-cloud] , author Austin Kleon let loose a rant on Twitter [https://twitter.com/austinkleon/status/392838314660610049], which I had to save and comment on: > "You guys know

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Small Books

Most Seth Godin books could be one sentence long. In fact, most books could be blog posts. So, if you're going to publish a real paper-based book these days, do me a favor: get to the point, charge a fair price and help me learn something. I'