Ever hear the Hindu story about the tree that grants wishes? It’s a good one.
An uncle tells a group of kids that a banyan tree will grant any wish that they desire. They rush outside to the tree and excitedly make their wishes. But unexpectedly they find that the tree also gives a wish’s opposite. [...]
There’s a fantastic community of people out there who get off on helping others overcome their bullshit excuses for complacency. One of the best is Hugh MacLeod, the always genius and often surly cartoonist, author, and blogger behind GapingVoid.
Like me, Hugh once worked in advertising. Unlike me, he’s figured out how to fully commit to [...]
It was a tough decision to write this post.
I’m someone who believes that when you think and act positively and with hope, those things come back to you. Likewise, the converse is true. We all know people with a cloud of doom over their heads. They expect their lives to suck so their lives suck so [...]
We’re going for it. With no backers and very few scruples, we’re pulling a Field of Dreams. (Actually, we’re pulling a Teddy Roosevelt. But I digress.) Build it first, get funding later. Gain momentum by doing. Create something people want to be a part of.
It’s what I’ve been preaching for the past year, and now [...]
I’ve spent a lot of time lately stump-talking about the necessity for careers to be defined inward out instead of outward in. You aren’t a copywriter or lawyer or bookkeeper. You are Lisa and Stuart and Jonathan, with ambitions, ideas, and talents that make you uniquely Lisa and Stuart and Jonathan.
Sure, it’s easier at cocktail [...]
“Would you do it again?”
Yesterday, I asked this question to my beloved wife, who endured months of uncertainty and inflating credit card balances for the sake of “Lemonade.”
Yet there I was, asking her again to look down the barrel of a loaded mortgage. To fall on the grenades of our finances. Wondering if she could [...]
My six year old has a real fear of failure. When Darth Vader takes away Anakin’s life force on his Leapster game, it’s as if Ben’s actual life force gets depleted with it. So rather than move on to intermediate or advanced levels, he just stopped trying.
To help him overcome this fear of failure, I told [...]
I’m home. It’s the weekend. And my brain is buzzing.
Yesterday, one year after attending the PSFK conference and wondering how the hell people get so smart, I got to speak at it. I saw Tina Roth Eisenberg (AKA Swiss Miss) talk about the simplicity of Swiss design and disciplined blogging. Nick Felton talked about the [...]
There’s a huge community of “Lemonaders” out there. And a great many more who would like to be.
So to get more people inspiring more people, we’re asking those who have reinvented themselves to upload a video submission of their story on the Lemonade Facebook page. The five most commented-on stories will win a free ticket [...]
I recently had the great honor of participating in two amazing podcasts.
One, called Adverve, is run by Angela Natividad and Bill Green, two advertising and marketing junkies who love their profession so much that they blog and podcast about it. We had a heart to heart about the industry and how we all got to [...]
