Permission To Suck

Look Inside and Make Your Creative Mark

Tuesday, July 6, 2010

Perhaps we’re looking for meaning, or overcoming creative block, or simply have too much free time, yet my wager is on the speed of which our cultural environment is changing. We simply can’t keep up so we are gradually choosing an alternative: finding a place to plant our flag.

Seth Godin on Linchpin, Interviewed by Piers Fawkes of PSFK

Monday, March 29, 2010

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Linchpin is his most personal book to date. In it he describes our current economic transformation from an individual's viewpoint. Think of it as a pep talk for Purple Cows or a kick in the ass for the rest of the herd.

Two Lessons in One Night

Saturday, January 23, 2010

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I had a short conversation with a good friend last night at a club. A mention of his young son reminded me to relive my childhood. His young pre-teen son is a talented skater seemingly on the “pro track”. Somewhere in the discussion Dad disclosed, “when I asked him if he might someday perform as [...]

Permission To Suck Manifesto 16, 17, 18 …

Tuesday, December 1, 2009

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This time, an addition of three items to the Permission To Suck Manifesto comes from my own attempts recently to reignite my passion for photography. It's not that I stopped enjoying the work but it's that I had forgotten what it felt like when everything felt new. Suspension of disbelief might be the answer - whatever works - but these three points have been rolling around in my head the past couple months.

The Permission to Suck Manifesto

Tuesday, October 13, 2009

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Somewhere in your personal history a decision was made to forgo a “real job”; one your parents would understand. Artist, creative director, writer, musician, photographer, actor, fine artist or pick one – you got attention for a talent or liked doing it so much that there was just no room to commit significant time to a profession less flattering gratifying. You became one of them sensitive types whose ego is vulnerably bonded to their work. True objective distance is pointless but it’s best to have a survival strategy.