Fascinating talk/article by Clay Shirky: A Group is its own worst enemy.
Author: Nadreck
Ex-game industry, ex-dbx, currently technical writer turned tools developer. Sucker for learning random things. Tends to talk about social computing, online identity, internet culture, and life.
Wil Wheaton on Creativity and Depression
And then you remember that depression lies, so you keep trying to stand up and push it off, and believe in yourself.
And it’s really fucking hard.
— Wil Wheaton, “And I am Nothing of a Builder“
Write the Docs 2014 (Links)
Write the Docs 2014 (Day 2)
[Note: Giant conference notes info-dump behind the link. These are raw notes, I’ve not really cleaned them up at all, but wanted to share in case others find it useful.]
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Write the Docs 2014 (Day 1)
[Note: Giant conference notes info-dump behind the link. These are raw notes, I’ve not really cleaned them up at all, but wanted to share in case others find it useful.]
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Dance Because You Can
This style of dancing seems to really fit this sort of music, and also stuff from the electro swing scene. For example:
Tom Waits to Start Your Day
“Nirvana” by Charles Bukowski, performed by Tom Waits.
(For those who are curious, this is off the Tom Waits album, Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers, and Bastards. Good stuff.)
Surfacing
I’m still here.
Fair warning: I’m going to ramble here for a little bit. I used to write my blog as a personal journal, and that slowly shifted into its current state as a semi-neglected platform for interesting quotes, random essays and commentary, and the occasional video. That’s likely what it’s going to continue to be, but sometimes you just need to get back to your roots and have a proper life-update braindump. Continue reading “Surfacing”
Link: LinkedIn For People Who Hate LinkedIn
Jon Jones has a really excellent write-up of how to set up a solid LinkedIn profile, and why you should. While the opening context is game industry related, 100% of the information he covers is relevant regardless of what career path you’re following. Well worth the read — also, check out the rest of his blog and tweets, there’s a ton of really solid information about resumes, portfolios, and getting into creative industries.
Link: Open for Business
Laura Kalbag nails transparency in business and social media in her post Open for Business over at A List Apart.
In particular, I’d like to note this:
Being open as an individual isn’t just saying everything you think without caring—that’s called being a sociopath! If you want to be transparent, you still need some kind of filter. It’s like how we might not swear in front of our grandmothers; it’s not good manners. Or how we don’t use Twitter to broadcast every meal we eat, because we’d bore our followers. Diplomacy is necessary too. Very few of us want to be honest to the point that we hurt other people.
I sometimes talk about choosing transparency in our lives, and I feel like her explanation here really describes two key points of what I’m trying to say: tact and diplomacy are not antithetical to transparency; transparency does not mean opening a firehose — you can still strive for a good signal-to-noise ratio.