January 2012
3 posts
Late to the party, but it’s a good one to...
"20 Seconds of Insane Courage" - A SXSW Story
Anne and I went and saw We Bought a Zoo last night. Now, it was mostly (really) campy, but it was definitely punctuated with moments of absolute brilliance. My favorite stories have always been the ones in which a normal guy, going about his normal life, realizes that doing something big is really just a series of small choices. One of the central themes is the idea that all it takes to really...
"Don't quit your day job…"
It seems that some of the most consistent advice I received when starting down this professional path was often twofold:
/////KEEP A LOW OVERHEAD//////
In other words, you just don’t know how far above or below your baseline you’ll end up when you work for yourself, especially in a creative field. There is an ebb and flow to income, to success, to the work itself. You just have to...