Life of db
The little quips and musings that occur in the Life of Dylan Blanchard.
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Quote reblogged from Officials Say the Darndest ThingsOne of the things you learn as a college president is that if an undergraduate is wearing a tie and jacket on Thursday afternoon at three o’clock, there are two possibilities. One is that they’re looking for a job and have an interview; the other is that they are an asshole. This was the latter case.
Former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers, giving his take on the Winklevoss twins. As dramatized in the film the “Social Network,” the well-heeled, well-connected twins once asked Summers—who was president of Harvard at the time—to intervene in their dispute with Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg. (via officialssay)
Oh dear. Well now, that’s just funny.
Kids, pick your suit-times wisely. -
You get to make a choice. You can remake that choice every day, in fact. It’s never too late to choose optimism, to choose action, to choose excellence. The best thing is that it only takes a moment — just one second — to decide.
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Well the picture doesn’t lie. We can point fingers and call each other names, but at its core, I’ve simply read a shit ton over the course of the last three years.
And I like it.
I’m not much for the latest and greatest in pop culture, and you won’t find that I’ve subscribed to any gossip blogs (beyond Macrumors), but what you will find is a mix of personal blogs, corporate blogs and editorials centered around different business ideas and various areas of technology. As I sit and wonder how I’ve amassed such a large amount of read articles, and intuitively, invested so much time in such an undertaking, I can point to one reason:
My core belief that formal education is not enough, and does not prepare you to meet the needs of employers, the world, and more importantly, your own needs.
Your informal education deserves as much of an investment as your ‘formal’ education does (at least in the time department), and by zeroing in on a basketful of great websites and blogs that turn out content, that in return will expand your perspective is critical, and I’d argue is likely directly related to your success in whatever your ventures are.School sucks, knowledge doesn’t.
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Well, a new project from Google… Schemer is aiming to be your go-to to getting on all the latest schemes or what’s happenings in whatever interest field you’re into.
I like.
But there’s a bigger question. Check out the homepage of Schemer… and you’ve already checked out their video. Shit is cool. SO! How does Schemer fit into the Google organization? How do they subsist on coolness, and yet operate within the larger, and generally uncool, Google organizational structure?
I’m curious. I’m curious because: how are they going to keep this feeling (smells like a start up) before being swallowed up and killed by the ‘real’ Google. I like this feeling, Google. Don’t take it away.
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Don’t be small because you can’t figure out how to get big. Consider being small because it might be better.
Seth Godin.
Don’t be surprised. Do be impressed.
Being a Goliath of commerce is no fun (and David wins anyway). Stay small, be golden, and use it to your advantage.
(Source: sethgodin.typepad.com)
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Quote reblogged from Life is hard. Here is someone.So now Publishing’s at death’s door. Major houses stand on their last legs, no one’s reading, the world of words is set to implode. Or so they say.
But they’re wrong. The world of words is a-ok. It’s the old-timey business model that’s not going to cut it anymore. And as a writer, I couldn’t be happier.
What we’re seeing is the ascension of writer (Carver over Lish). Of course Publishing’s scared. They won’t be able to bait and switch a novel for a short story collection. They won’t be able to dictate terms to consumers. They won’t be able to remainder books after 90 days. But writers still need people. Most still need editors (If you don’t think you need one, it’s okay. You’ll mature.) and publicists and entourages and fashioners of bling.
Talented folks exist who know how to write but know fuck-all about anything else. And so I think we’ll see a fractured market made up of talented people doing niche work in the world of letters: folks who understand how to keep relationships. Folks who can take the rough-hewn constructs of some feral craftsman and turn it into salable furniture. Folks who know enough about logistics to get a neurotic, tweedy basket case through five mid-Atlantic cities during a modest book tour. That’s the future of publishing. Hell, that’s probably the future of everything.turbine: Publishing’s dying again?
I could not agree more.
(via meaghano)
Interestingly enough, after I have a big ole conversation with Ms Renda, no matter the topic, it’s all I see the next day (case in point: big chat about the print industry last night, and about small, niche markets). I don’t know whether I’m just seeing more clearly through the fog, or if the actual topic is the fog (shit, how deep is that?).
I love the idea of this market transformation… niches have an intriguing beauty working for them.
It’s time to Live it.
