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“The most important thing in your digital life is your personal blog. Not Facebook, not any of the stupid groups you belong to. Your blog is your little slice of heaven and nobody can fuck with you there. [..] So connect with your niche and put all your energy into it”.” —Loren Feldman (videoblogger)
Aug 15, 2009
Aug 15, 20093 notes
Overcoming Loneliness → 30sleeps.com

Nobody cares. Nobody knows that you exist. Nobody wants to meet you. Nobody cares that you are interesting to talk to. Nobody is going to coax you out of hiding. […] “Nobody cares” is not meant to be cynical or patronizing. Rather, it is a natural byproduct of the scale of humanity. In business, your potential customers just have so much stuff to choose from that they can’t possibly notice more than the tiniest fraction of what is out there. They might not even realize that they “need” what you are selling, and even if they’re aware of their need, they may not understand that your product fulfills it. […]

Nobody cares does not mean that nobody will care. It’s just a reminder that there are forces and filters that, while helping us cope with information overload, also make us invisible to each other. And the way to social savviness is not to ignore them, but to incorporate them into your action plan.

Aug 15, 2009
Aug 14, 2009113 notes
Fake Rocks, Salami Commanders, and Just Enough to Start | 43 Folders → 43folders.com

Merlin Mann talks about Doing Creative Work and why it’s so hard to get started:

… developing those invaluable tolerances (the tolerance for ambiguity and the tolerance for sucking) requires the exercise of some very small muscles. The muscles are super-hard to locate, and once you do find them, they hurt like a bitch to exercise. But, doing that exercise repeatedly will pay you back ten-fold.

Because that next time you’re in the studio or the library or office or the cafe or the living room or the what-have-you, and you start to feel the fears building barriers, you’ll know what to do. And you’ll know how to do it. Because you’ve done it before.

In other words:

You sit, you work, you tolerate. Then you do it again.

Aug 13, 2009
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