Trying to pursue many different directions at once, but not making progress? Frustrated that the world wants you to pick one thing, because you want to do them all?
Move to an opposite place and live there – immersed in local friends, language, culture, and daily life – until I really understand that point of view – until it feels like home.
Then I’ll move to another opposite part of the world and do it again, until there are no more opposites left.
I’m addicted to learning. Trying to figure out the ways of the world. Trying to understand how other people think, how I think, and how to bridge the gap.
Seems to be an obvious statement, so I was surprised I disagreed.
You know you need help, but to find and train someone would take more time than you have!
“I never would have thought of that.
How do they even come up with that?
It’s genius!”
The blank page starts with unlimited potential.
But each word you add reduces its possibilities.
iTunes had just launched two weeks before, with only some music from the major labels.
Many of us in the music biz were not sure this idea was going to work.
I’ve been planning on making KarmaList an open database of music industry contacts. (Programmers, see the tech specs here.)
When I’m hot, it’s hard for me to imagine that others in the room are cold. I think it really is hot, not that it’s hot only for me. It feels like fact, not opinion.