ValveSoftwareHandbookWhy Valve’s Handbook for New Employees went viral – and brought back new recruits Even if you learned how to write a handbook, it still doesn’t mean you should follow a formula. There are plenty of handbooks out there that break the mold and...
These days Noam Chomsky is probably most famous for his consistent, outspoken criticism of U.S. foreign policy. Yet before the War on Terror and the War on Drugs, Chomsky became internationally famous for proposing a novel solution to an age-old question: what does a...
The first time I wrote about her was in 2009. I met her in a bookstore and she was drawing and I was attracted to her. I asked her what she was drawing.She told me her whole story. And then a week later I wrote about it. That same day I got my first death threat. “I...
I have posted this before, but it popped into my head again today, as it’s one of the truest things I’ve ever heard about having a career doing creative work: When I talk to students about the distinction between professionalism and personal development, I very...
I’m not a big believer in the future. I mean, it will exist—we know that. But that’s about it. CXO Advisory Group has analyzed the predictions of hundreds of pundits. Are the talking heads on TV right or wrong? You know, the ones who say Ebola will end the world, or...
“Designing Your Life,” a class taught at Stanford University, the school’s “most popular class, hit upon a system to help you deal with almost any challenge.
There’s that saying: “Don’t put the cart before the horse.” If the work is the horse, a career makes a great cart. It’s a good thing to have and it can support your work, but don’t let that get in front. At least I can’t. The...
It’s a long way to happiness a long way to go but I’m gonna get there, boy the only way I know It’s a long way to happiness and when we get there is anybody’s guess Pet Shop...
Creativity, success, reinvention according to the Rolling Stones by James Altucher. Mick Jagger fooled around with Keith Richards’ girlfriend. I wouldn’t be able to work with someone after that. But maybe that’s why I’m an author. And not a rockstar. The Rolling...
(turn and face the strain) Ch-ch-changes. Don’t want to be a richer man. Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes. (turn and face the strain) Ch-ch-changes. Just gonna have to be a different man. Time may change me. But I can’t trace time. David Bowie 5 Steps To Change Your...
Chase Jarvis is sitting down with Austin Kleon author of the inspiring books: “Steal Like an Artist” and “Show Your Work”. My favorite quotes: (42:35) “We are all in this life hack, we are in a cyborg moment in our culture, where...
Manifesting is acquiring the experience of what you want to feel and being living and believing in that experience. Then allowing the experience coming to form. Those who are certain about the outcome can afford to wait and wait without anxiety. Gabrielle...
Most honest and straightforward talk about personal transformation I heard so far. If you want to make sense of all the twist and turns in your life, misfortunes, luck and sudden connections, listen to Robert Greene’s lecture. “Nothing is wasted”....
