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This morning I watched Jamie Oliver’s TED Talk from the Long Beach TED conference.  When I watch a TED Talk, I have my notebook out, pen in hand.  I take notes – all the time now.
In the first thirty seconds I was already scribbling down a quote that pulled at me.
“I profoundly believe that the [...]

Fleeting, spectacular, and unattainable.
Right?
Wrong. Good ideas are more like dirt than rainbows.
You can’t grow or build anything with rainbows; yet dirt, when properly worked can yield crops, gardens, houses, cities.
Are your good ideas like rainbows?
If so, it’s more than likely that whenever you have one, you stand back in awe, maybe you take a [...]

Authenticity gets touted around as the big thing for personal branding.
But all this worry about authenticity means it’s easy to get wrapped up in our own bullshit. We become hypersensitive to our personal image, spending more time managing how we appear than doing what makes us who we are.
Authenticity as a selling point is [...]

This morning I watched Jamie Oliver’s TED Talk from the Long Beach TED conference.  When I watch a TED Talk, I have my notebook out, pen in hand.  I take notes – all the time now.
In the first thirty seconds I was already scribbling down a quote that pulled at me.
“I profoundly believe that the [...]

I have not had a permanent residence since September 2007.

I don’t have a home office space or coworking arrangement regularly so unless I can land a decent desk at a hosts house, the coffee shop around the corner usually gets six to eight hours of my time on a regular basis.

How do I survive and still manage to get work done?

Today I’m going to highlight three guys that I pay a lot of attention to, and really I think you should as well.

Having traveled for the last year staying with friends, random hosts, and family I’ve learned, sometimes the hard way, a few ways to be a great guest in someone else’s home.

I’m always pleased when I find art that inspires me – in terms of travel, life, dance. This piece was shared with me by Kathryn Jennex. It resonates with my vagabonding experience (it’s been nearly a year).

My first guest post is up on Untemplater, a collaborative blog founded by Jun Loayza, Adam Baker, Cody McKibben,Monica O’Brien, Carlos Miceli, and Andrew Norcross, with many more writers in the Gen-Y movement.
Check out my post here: How to Get Lucky… Creatively.
Welcome to Drop of Change for all of the readers from Untemplater.
Drop of Change is a blog about creating, [...]

If you haven’t been back recently, or are reading this in an RSS reader (click here for the real version), I made a major site redesign recently.
I was using Cody McKibben’s great Thrilling Theme with some modifications, however, the theme felt constricting despite it’s exceptional options.  It’s been replaced with the Headway Theme (affiliate link) and a [...]

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