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Perhaps the great struggle of knowing God’s plan for your life is being comfortable not knowing the plan. Maybe our belief in his Providence is made full when we cease to desire the details of the plan and simply trust that there is one. — Part of a recent conversation. (via churchjanitor)
“The Creative Life”, a 9m video by Shawn Blanc as part of his Delight is in the Details kit.
He does a good job of capturing essences of the creative process. And in the process, creating inspiration. I bought the toolkit too – haven’t been through all of it, but I look at it as an inspiration reservoir I’ll be going back to from time to time to push me forward.
And now for some pretty photos… :)
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I dunno, Austin Kleon has just been hitting all my buttons recently. This post (extended version) is no exception.
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I like this idea of keeping a logbook – not a diary, not a journal, but a logbook. Just like on the ships, or weather takers.
Seems a good way to briefly recap the day, process it ever so slightly, and release it to go to sleep. Think I’ll start doing it today with one of those unused journals lying around…
Phil Libin’s keynote at the 2014 Evernote Conference.
Evernote is trying to change the way people work – which is an audacious goal. But I think they’re onto something.
I watched the first and last 15 minutes of this video, where Phil explains that, despite living in the digital world now for 30+ years, we’re still using the symbols of the non-digital world, and it’s holding us back. Things like typewriters, file cabinets, and projectors.
The Evernote team is re-thinking the flow of work, and building its software around collecting, finding, writing, and presenting. And that they can all happen in the same space. And be collaborative.
Watching the videos at the end (and especially combined with yesterday’s post) really emphasized for me the shift from “competitive and hoarding” to “collaborative and sharing”. And Evernote is enabling that.
Their new tagline: “For your life’s work”, and I know for me: I couldn’t do my work half as effectively without it.
For most of history, success meant success at zero-sum games. And in most of them meanness was not a handicap but probably an advantage. That is changing. Increasingly the games that matter are not zero-sum. Increasingly you win not by fighting to get control of a scarce resource, but by having new ideas and building new things. —
Paul Graham, in his latest post, Mean People Fail.
The creative economy works on different principles.
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austinkleon:
That Steve Alibi bird/fart metaphor is here.
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Acton University, 10th annual.
June 16 - 19, 2015; Grand Rapids, Michigan.
“Be inspired to build a free and virtuous society.”
This looks like good stuff.
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The making of “The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey”.
This has been fun to watch. There certainly is a lot of coordination that goes into making a movie. And the Peter Jackson team has made a skill of doing multiples at once. The movie part is fascinating, and I’m super curious about the planning part and how they do that.
Anywho, if you have a few moments, check it out! :) (And the originals and newer installments are available from the source at The Hobbit Blog.)