thoughts
- KarmaList wishlist?
- Valuable to others, or only you?
- Quit quirks when working with others
- My loss
- I assume I'm below average
- How to get hired
- How to hire a programmer to make your ideas happen
- After 15 years of practice...
- How I became Ryuichi Sakamoto's guitarist
- Naïve Quitting
- Thursday = Thor's day
- Architecture awards and relationships
- A real person, a lot like you
- Flip the stick
- Successful SxSW: the Tao of the Conference
- Do you have conference advice for musicians? Want to be in my SxSW talk?
- First Follower idea is all yours
- Leadership Lessons from Dancing Guy
- Resist the urge to punish everyone for one person's mistake
- There are always more than two options
- Big catalog = infinite specialty shops
- Musician feedback on Ignore Everybody
- Papa Bill: I don't need to worry about you.
- "Online" marketing = "Color" TV
- Why I gave away my company to charity
- There's no speed limit. (The lessons that changed my life.)
- Japanese Addresses: the opposite is also true
- Present one idea at a time and let others build upon it
- The challenge: Don't speak in future tense
- Trust but verify
- Let pedestrians define the walkways
- Confidence required
- If you think you haven't found your passion...
- Doesn't feel like work (or I've forgotten)
- Learning the theme, not the example.
- How I knew I was done with my company
- You should feel pain when unclear
- How do you grade yourself?
- Not happy with existing venues? Make a new one.
- What's the difference between like, love, and in-love?
- And if only 1% of those people...
- Does your company really want to hang out with me?
- Biking
- Is there such a thing as too much freedom?
- Write? Write. Sleep? Sleep. Read? Read. Don't fight it.
- Safety
- Imagining lots of tedious steps? Or one fun step?
- ... desperate? Part 2
- Does it help to be desperate?
- climbing ladders
- Unlearning
- My heroes
- Kurt Vonnegut explains drama
- How to send personalized emails
- Sprezzatura
- What do you hate not doing?
- How I use Twitter
- No more yes. It's either HELL YEAH! or no.
- A computer that would require kids to be creative to use it
- I miss the mob
- Listen to my music, and let me know what I should do
- Barking
- The power of no reward
- The mirror: It's about you, not them.
- Nothing to waste: The advantage of being under-funded
- Version 0.1 = Start lo-fi
- Early drafts of great work are encouraging
- Fundamental reading on marketing
- Doing the opposite of everyone is valuable.
- Why do we get some songs stuck in our head?
- Customers given too many choices are 10x less likely to buy
- Shut up! Announcing your plans makes you less motivated to accomplish them.
- That's version ∞. First launch version 0.1.
- Show success before asking for help
- Why you need your own company
- Does quantity + learning = quality?
- How to make a movement. Lessons learned from dancing guy.
- You have enough.
- Some people like to pay. Let them.
- Are fans telling friends? If not, improve, don't promote.
- What do musicians and entrepreneurs have in common?
- Interviewed by CIRAA
- What super-power do you want?
- Talent increases. Resourcefulness decreases. Are you sustainable?
- My $3.3M mistake
- Have you looked under the chickens?
- Not what it used to be!
- Dreams are here. Details have changed.
- Backwards
- Character predicts your future
- Sammy Cahn said thank you
- Goals shape the present, not the future.
- Interview
- Accelerate change
- Me, we.
- My new business cards : guitar picks
- Advice for a 19-year-old guitarist who wants to be a session musician.
- Complainers
- Getting past it
- Nobody's going to help you. Does that encourage you or discourage you?
- Happiness is letting someone make you the villain
- Attending a music biz conference? Here's the REAL way to do it....
- Mystery : Are people asking themselves questions about you?
- Real rebellion is going to school wearing a clown suit
- Double-speed! Half-speed! Up an octave! Down an octave!
- Nobody knows the future - and it doesn't matter!
- Are foreign accents a reflection of identity?
- The Grand Pursuit
- Uncomparable: anchor a new mama
- Should I put my music on LOTS of websites, or just a few?
- Is your album a starting line or a finish line?
- Mastering entrepreneurship?
- Small actions changing self-identity
- 6 things I wish I knew the day I started Berklee
- Inspiration is a good start...
- Bye-Bye, Baby!
- Should you go digital-only, and skip the CD?
- Ah, to own nothing!
- Songwriters / Lyricists / Composers (who don't perform)
- Who to ask for recommendations
- Action-Reaction
- A Musician's Advice About the College Market
- Across the Universe
- Selling music by solving a specific need
- Avoid advance promotion. Be buyable first.
- Rule-breaking songs?
- two three four ONE, two three four ONE
- Moving to a new country
- Aim for the edges.
- Some things I've learned this year that turned my world upside-down and I'm still trying to wrap my head around
- Restrictions will set you free
- Get specific!
- eliminating the time between thinking something and doing it
- If I had a record label, would you be signed to it?
- Circle of influence - Circle of concern
- What's really keeping you from where you need to be? (It's not piracy.)
- 5 tips for musicians
- It's great to be a beginner again
- What should I do when someone says, “Let me know what you think!” of their music?
- Never have a limit on your income
- Best articles on piracy I've ever seen
- Whatever scares you or excites you, go do it
- Happy 10th Birthday to CD Baby - and an announcement
- Aiming to please big clients versus little clients
- Wikinomics at work
- the public you is not you
- 7 reasons I switched back to PHP after 2 years on Rails
- Keep in touch!