This is a guest post from Marianne Cantwell of Free Range Humans who is collaborating with me on some very exciting projects around Screw Work Let’s Play to be revealed soon. Why working for yourself doesn’t mean working by yourself You’re a people person. You don’t want to be holed up at home everyday, with [...]
Archive for August, 2010
The best 424 words on writing I’ve ever read
Posted by John on August 16th, 2010
One of my favourite pieces of writing on writing that I have ever read is by Paul Graham. Paul is a fascinating entrepreneur. He designed the algorithm used by most anti-spam software around the world and he now runs Y Combinator, a seed funder for startups. He is also a superb essayist. In this short [...]
Fear of failure? It’s a myth!
Posted by Jay on August 12th, 2010
At every step of your journey to getting paid to do what you love, you will be taking a risk – daring to do something new that is a stretch, that you haven’t done before. You’ll be striding up to an important contact, perhaps even someone famous, and asking them to help you, or to [...]
5 steps to being brilliant (without being a jerk)
Posted by John on August 8th, 2010
I’m just back from a 5-day break in Sicily at a remarkable boutique hotel. Every so often in our lives we are lucky enough to happen upon something truly brilliant – a restaurant, a hotel, a home. It may be grand or simple, but everything is just right – the food, the decor, the location, [...]
