My friend Todd just released The Intrepid Mini-MBA E-Book Project (PDF), and he was kind enough to include me. In his own words:
I asked 40 people, friends of mine from metro Atlanta, to share lessons learned from their lives…so that younger generations might benefit from the joy and pain of their experiences. Here is the result of their heartfelt labor…
Let him know what you think if you find it useful.
Todd worked hard on this project, and I’m thrilled to see him ship it.
Amber posted on the The Domino Project blog yesterday about assembling a street team to assist with our marketing efforts. There has been a deluge of responses already, and they’re still coming in.
Check out the post, give it some thought, and please get involved (this is a link to the application) if you think you’re a fit. We’d love to work with you.
Over at Domino HQ, we’ve been settling into the roles that we’ll be having for the next few months. As things are firming up, I’m having to learn a new way of accomplishing my goals.
I’m used to a metric-driven approach to web marketing: driving signups, conversions, decreasing page load times, etc. With this project, everything is idea and purpose-driven. And without fully grasping the idea and purpose driving the project, I’m doomed to miss my target.
I’m out of my element and loving it.
I walk a couple miles every day during the week. From my apartment to the train stop, the train stop to the office, and back again. Also worth mentioning?
It’s really cold in NYC right now.
On the way home in the afternoons, it’s always tempting to escape the weather for a few moments and warm up in one of the many stores that I pass. The trouble is, this doesn’t get me home any faster. And I don’t make any progress when I’m doing what feels good in the short term.
Just keep swimming.
Seth just published some thoughts on why we’re rejecting the New York Times Bestseller List. It sheds some insight into the broken system and why we’re intentionally disregarding the list for the purposes of this venture.
Let the movement begin.
My buddy Nick Reese interviewed me right before I moved to NYC. We talked about freelancing, doing work that matters, living a live of purpose, and all the other stuff I should write about more.
Nick is a good friend of mine and one of the most influential humans I’ve ever met. He’s an affiliate marketer, tea drinker, and world traveler who posesses an infectiously positive outlook on life.
Anyway, check out the post and if you have some questions for me, leave them in the comments!
Follow Nick’s world traveling updates on Twitter, tips on running a better blog, and pictures of life on the road!
Glad to know you, Nick.
As I venture further and further from the world of resumes, cover letters, and succinct job titles, I’m finding comfort in my inability to be defined.
There isn’t a label for what I do. I don’t have a title that describes me. There’s no way to capture the essence of my interests in a single paragraph. And that’s fine.
What I do know is that I connect dots. And I see opportunities growing organically in a way that’s hard to articulate. I know that I maintain a healthy disregard for the impossible, and that I’m interested in living a life worth leading.
I still don’t know what I want to be when I grow up however, so I’m in search of novel experiences that stretch me, challenge me, and push me outside of my comfort zones. So being involved with this project works out pretty well.
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In two weeks, I will be moving to New York City to work with Seth Godin and five other accomplices who seek to revolutionize the publishing industry via The Domino Project.
There’s a surreal quality to it all (I just interviewed (and found out that I was hired) on Friday), but I fully expect for this to be a transformative experience. The gang of troublemakers (Lauryn, Amber, Alex, Michael, and Amy) I get to work with is amazing. I hope you get to meet them.
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I couldn’t help but share this story. Powerful.
I went bowling with friends last night and there was a very interesting gentleman in the lane next to ours. In addition to “Kool-Aid” being the name he selected for his game, he had an incredibly awkward form: he got a running start and released the ball toward the ground while jumping. The impact of the ball hitting the ground caught many innocent bystanders off-guard. It was quite the spectacle.
My first reaction was one of amusement and fascination, but that faded after watching him bowl a few times. The most amazing thing about his form is that it frequently resulted in strikes.
It was an amusing juxtaposition: persons in my lane had perfect form…and frequently rolled gutterballs…whereas this gentleman had the grace of a sumo wrestler on ice skates but was bowling fantastic sets back to back.
So as people snickered at his form and method, I had to ask myself…
…does it matter?