How tough is it for an artist to become a celebrity? Very very tough. But how tough is it to find 1000 people willing to buy your content? Not too tough eh? That’s exactly what Kevin Kelly talks about in this great article. He has a very valuable point here. In the modern era its… Continue reading Finding your true fans
You know what is a Kaibutsu? It’s the Japanese term for monster. Now when I say monster, you might picture a big furry green colored thing that runs around eating people (and you won’t be wrong), but the wikipedia definition of monster defines it as an aberrant occurrence, usually biological, that was taken as a… Continue reading Becoming a Kaibutsu
As software engineers (or even as humans in genera), we are all faced with this dilemma. Whether to know everything about that one thing (master of one) or to attempt to know something about everything (jack of all trades). There must have been plenty of times in my life when I have stopped working on… Continue reading Overspecialization or Overgeneralization
It’s boring to keep doing 10 pushups a day. OR to write 100 words a day. Motivation gets us started with these habits but more often they last only as long as our motivation does (i.e. not for long). There are literally thousands of blogs, theories and articles out there about how to achieve your goals… Continue reading Don’t break the chain
What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think. This rule, equally arduous in actual and in intellectual life, may server for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness. It is the harder because you will always find those who think they know what your duty is better than you know… Continue reading The great man
We like to cast innovators as outsiders who leverage their freedom from tradition-bound institutions to change the world. In reality, innovation almost always requires long periods of quite traditional training. Taken from here Good for nothing hero is busy loittering away his life. One fine day, the enemy (current cool guy/father-in-law/rich bully) taunts him about his… Continue reading The rebel genius myth
