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| Mon, 25 Aug 2008 03:53
Welcome to episode #118 of Six Pixels Of Separation - The Twist Image Podcast. This is noting but one big, fat and ugly rant about a journalist and their article about why they won't/don't Blog. It got me all kinds of frustrated, and I didn't get my full release on the Blog, so you can hear me rave about it here for a bit. Enjoy the conversation... Here it is: Six Pixels Of Separation - The Twist Image Podcast - Episode #118 - Host: Mitch Joel. Running time: 30:41. Audio comment line - please send in a comment and add your voice to the audio community: +1 206-666-6056. Please send in...
Ask A Ninja Question 79 "Ninja Hangouts"
| Sat, 23 Aug 2008 02:25
The Ninja gives the low down on where ninjas hangout. Click below to Download this movie: (Use 'Save As' Control Click for Macs and Right Click For Windows) iPod/Quicktime If you like it, tell a friend! You got questions, Ninja got answers. Previous Episodes of Ask A Ninja Send your questions to askaninja@gmail.com. This is a podcast and can be automagically downloaded to you computer through iTunes. Please upgrade to the newest version of Quicktime.
Quote of the Week: On Multitasking
| Fri, 22 Aug 2008 12:33
My quote of the week comes from a comment by Eideteker in this Metafilter thread on multitasking: Multitasking is the art of distracting yourself from two things you’d rather not be doing by doing them simultaneously. And, for what it’s worth, here’s what I had to say about the myth of multitasking a few years back: powered by ODEO ”Quote of the Week: On Multitasking” was written by Merlin Mann for 43Folders.com and was originally posted on August 22, 2008. Except as noted, it's ©2008 Merlin Mann and licensed for reuse under CC BY-NC-ND 3.0. "Why a footer?" ...
EGC Clambake for August 19, 2008 - “Fourth Anniversary, Big Whoop”
Download Now · | Wed, 20 Aug 2008 03:17
Here is the direct MP3 download for the EGC clambake for August 19, 2008. I play a song from Rocket City Riot and then try and fail to read some user mail; I play a song by the Harvey Girls; I discuss this being the fourth anniversary of this podcast, why I started doing this [...]
43 Folders: Admin: Why a Footer in 43 Folders Feed Items?
| Thu, 21 Aug 2008 13:40
Why a Footer in 43 Folders Feed Items? We’ve added a footer to items that appear in the 43 Folders RSS feed. Here’s why. The 43 Folders feed is a popular way for people to keep up with what’s happening on our site. If you’re not sure what we mean by “feed,” we’re talking about things like “Atom” and “RSS,” which are open standards that allow you to subscribe to a syndication feed that displays the headline and full content of every story that appears on our site. And, then, you can use apps like Google Reader or NetNewsWire...
Attention & Ambiguity: The Non-Paradox of Creative Work
| Wed, 20 Aug 2008 11:40
Psychology Today: The Creative Personality [via delicious.com/huxant, w/a reminder by Jack Shedd] Some days, I can’t decide how I feel about Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (say: “chick SENT me high”). He’s written some great stuff, but, sometimes, he mixes Big-Word academicspeak with anecdotal observation in a way that smells a little hokey to me. So, although I’m trying not to audibly roll my eyes at a pop-psychology Top 10 list about creativity’s “dialectical tension,” I definitely am interested in one of his observations about the “paradox”...
| Tue, 19 Aug 2008 12:14
My friends at Six Apart recently asked me to make a list of blogs that I enjoy. I think they’re planning to use it for their new Blogs.com project. Unfortunately, I’m late getting it to them (typical), but if it’s still useful, I’ll post it here in a day or four. As I think about the blogs I’ve returned to over the years — and the increasingly few new ones that really grab my attention — I want to start with, ironically enough, a list. Here’s what I think helps make for a good blog. Good blogs have a voice. Who wrote this? What is their name?...
Download Now · | Sun, 17 Aug 2008 16:54
Welcome to episode #117 of Six Pixels Of Separation - The Twist Image Podcast. With a handful of audio comments in cue, I ditched them all to talk more about this space, where we're going and what you - as a Marketer - can do to get more engaged in the community (and your career). I hope this doesn't come off as preachy (but you never know). Enjoy the conversation... Here it is: Six Pixels Of Separation - The Twist Image Podcast - Episode #117 - Host: Mitch Joel. Running time: 34:05. Audio comment line - please send in a comment and add your voice to the audio community: +1 206-666-6056....
Closed Doors and Casualties in the "Coup d'attention"
| Sat, 16 Aug 2008 16:37
Last night, I got home from a lovely one-day trip to do some speaking, and I was catching up on a couple emails before I went to bed. One of the messages was a thoughtful note from someone who works in the US Government (and whose name, job, and identifying elements I’m changing to protect his or her privacy). “Sally,” I’ll call her, likes the 43 Folders stuff, but has legitimate concerns about how all this “attention management” stuff might send a wrong or hostile message to her colleagues. It’s a great point. As is so often the case, I ended up...
Cooking for the Creative Beast
| Fri, 15 Aug 2008 10:46
Guest post Guest blogger, Matt Wood, learns how to feed his creative side (without giving it a big gut). 'mdm Earlier this summer, I was in the kitchen, trying to cook dinner. I had a pot on the stove and a fire going on the grill outside. I was fumbling with a bag of frozen peas when my three-year-old started shouting at me to fix one of his toys. “Hold on a second, son,” I said. “I can’t do two things at once.” He looked me, dead serious, and said, “But you have two hands, Daddy.” Too Many Pots on the Stove My life usually feels like...
Time & Attention Presentation: "Who Moved My Brain?"
| Thu, 14 Aug 2008 13:52
Who Moved My Brain? Revaluing Time & Attention (slideshare.net) Thanks to my pals, Dara and Shawn, I’ve been preparing for a return visit with the folks at GoDaddy to deliver a couple talks on Inbox Zero and Time and Attention. As I’ve been going over my slides for the Time & Attention talk, I realized I hadn’t shared how the material has evolved since it premiered at Macworld in January. Which is to say, “Kind of a lot.” So, I’ve posted the updated deck. Of course, the irony of making cool, unbulleted slides is that the decks you create won’t...
| Thu, 14 Aug 2008 15:48
I’m at Gimme Coffee right now in Brooklyn. To my left, there’s a guy on an IBM Thinkpad using Gmail. I’m beside that, using Google Docs. To my right, there’s a girl with a black Macbook, using Youtube. We are all on Google properties. Is that scary? I don’t know why, I just suddenly had a really weird [...]
| Wed, 13 Aug 2008 16:36
One of the interesting things about co-writing a book is that you look into someone else’s experiences, as well as your own. So I’ve been thinking about Chris Brogan a lot. (It’s weird, I know.) Anyway, remember the funnel? A long time ago, Seth Godin figured out that turning strangers into friends, then into customers, and then [...]
Download Now · | Wed, 13 Aug 2008 01:32
As a bonus, while I wrap up my vacation and head off to the New Media Expo, here is my contribution to J.C. Hutchins’ “7th Son: Obsidian. Also, check out mixed media magazine/site Verge of LA, which includes my “How To Meet Any Woman You Want, Guaranteed.” And, of course, meet me at Coverville 500 at Bally’s [...]
Task Times, The Planning Fallacy, and a Magical 20%
| Wed, 13 Aug 2008 16:00
Overcoming Bias: Planning Fallacy Via The Guardian, via Chairman Gruber, comes this post from the new-to-me blog, Overcoming Bias. It discusses the research behind a common cognitive bias known as The Planning Fallacy, which is a repeatable, documented error in thinking that apparently explains why we all tend to “underestimate task-completion times.” It’s summed up nicely by Gödel, Escher, Bach author Douglas Hofstadter’s Law regarding the time it takes to do anything: It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take Hofstadter’s Law into account....
Gmail Outage or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love GTD Contexts
| Tue, 12 Aug 2008 13:46
Like thousands of people yesterday, I was annoyed and inconvenienced by Gmail’s unexpected 2-hour dirtnap. But, wow. Apparently, it just irrevocably hijacked the whole day for some folks. And even sent a few into a Dark Afternoon of the Soul that most 19th-century Romantic poets would have found a bit histrionic. Now, as a user, polemicist, and nemesis of Apple’s MobileMe problems, I’m not here to criticize the frustration about a broken cloud service; I know that feeling all too well and have the dents in my wall to prove it. But, I do want to talk about some strategies...
Ideas, Execution, and the Rare Auteur
| Mon, 11 Aug 2008 14:03
ideas are just a multiplier of execution - O’Reilly ONLamp Blog Derek Sivers’ short blog post from 2005 has been making the rounds lately — it came to me via Chairman Gruber — and I have to say, I can’t stop thinking about it. I think this is really profound thinking around the fundamental misunderstanding many people have about the value of ideas. In a nutshell, Derek says ideas are valuable only inasmuch as they can be multiplied by execution. So, if you remember your 3rd grade arithmetic, you can figure out the product of even the most fantastic idea when it’s...
Berkun's Game-Changer: Disruptive, Breakthrough Essay on Transformative Jargon Utilization.
| Mon, 11 Aug 2008 13:18
Why Jargon Feeds on Lazy Minds - Scott Berkun Scott Berkun, writing on how buzzwords cheapen language, dull meaning, and enfeeble our thinking: If I could give every single business writer, guru or executive one thing to read every morning before work, it’d be this essay by George Orwell: Politics and the English Language. Not only is this essay short, brilliant, thought-provoking and memorable, it calls bullshit on most of what passes today as speech and written language in management circles. And if you are too lazy to read the article, all you need to remember is this: never use...
| Mon, 11 Aug 2008 19:12
Registrations are open! Show up or you owe me a beer. But seriously, Laurent, Sylvain, and Laurent (2), and Michelle are doing a great job with this, particularly since running a bilingual event is a bit more complicated than your usual Podcamp. It should be pretty damn cool.
Download Now · | Sun, 10 Aug 2008 23:05
Welcome to episode #116 of Six Pixels Of Separation - The Twist Image Podcast. I thought this was going to be a quick, twenty minute, episode, but I got on some tangents... and you know how it goes. Warning: this episode does have some self-promotion about Twist Image (sort of a summer update), but I do tie it into why (I think) you're here. Also, my major excitement about PodCamp Montreal (and why you need to care). Enjoy the conversation... Here it is: Six Pixels Of Separation - The Twist Image Podcast - Episode #116 - Host: Mitch Joel. Running time: 40:47. Audio comment line - please...
| Fri, 08 Aug 2008 16:25
I have a problem. There’s this one Mexican restaurant I keep walking by. Through the windows, I see their curtains, which are coloured green, white, green. And I keep thinking: “Guys, change just one of those and you’ve got a Mexican flag! How great would that be?” Of course, in reality, this is none of my damn business. But [...]
$1000 for an iPhone app? That’s rich.
| Thu, 07 Aug 2008 18:51
Some may applaud Apple’s decision to remove the $1000 iPhone app (the one that does nothing) from its store the other day but, in reality, it’s deplorable. I’m not concerned about the customer service issue (because yes, people will buy it, and yes, Apple will get complaints)– I get that side of it. But this thing [...]
| Wed, 06 Aug 2008 20:14
Heh, I’m pretty sure this post is directed at me. Which is fine, I deserve it. :) Things have been busy around here. The book with Brogan is really happening, so I’m learning to write a bunch. It’s actually pretty interesting– if any of you have problems with writing, just consider starting something, even if just [...]
Foo for Bar: Kicking Ass with Outcome-Based Thinking
| Fri, 08 Aug 2008 13:47
The other day, I was talking with someone who is trying to encourage a Getting Things Done-like work approach amongst the people on his team. We started talking about which parts of David Allen’s GTD system appear to have the greatest long-term impact on the people who have adopted it and who ultimately stick with it for years. When asked to distill everything down to its most powerful concepts, I came up with three, and here’s how I’d summarize each: Outcome-Based Thinking. Articulating in the most specific terms possible what a successful outcome looks like for any...
Making Time to Make: One Clear Line
| Thu, 07 Aug 2008 05:10
This article is Part 3 of a 3-part series about attention management for people who do creative work called, Making Time to Make. Previously: Part 1, Bad Correspondence Then: Part 2, The Job You Think You Have Could an email recluse like Neal Stephenson just cowboy up by agreeing to a monthly chat session or the occasional visit to a fan forum? Sure, he could. Could a volunteer intern scan Neal’s email once a week for particularly wonderful notes? You bet. Could he even conceivably just drop all the blast shields, open a chat room, “livestream” from...
