Unquiet Desperation

A week ago, I asked for people to submit some topics that they’d like to hear me write about. Some of my comrades in the Cleveland Programming Wasteland chimed in, wanting to know how I wound up working for Mahalo.

In a word, podcasting.

No, really.

Desperation, Quiet to Unquiet

When the podcasting community started to form [...]

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It seems to me that the greatest risk facing creative, driven people today is not obscurity. It’s burnout.

I read this in a blog entry today:

“Let’s be honest, when was the last time you felt as though you had enough time to do the things you wanted [...]

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Yesterday, Jason Calacanis1, posted about how to save money running a startup. Techcrunch took one part of Jason’s post and it and blew it way out of proportion, and Jason wrote a second post to continue the conversation. I weighed in on Jason’s blog about this, but I wanted to elaborate a [...]

Author note: This was originally published in Steve Eley’s The Podcast Pedant. I came across it recently, and it still rang true with me, so I thought I’d give it another airing. Enjoy.

I have a bad habit of overcommitting myself. No…wait…that’s not quite right. I have a bad habit of committing myself and then [...]

My wife and I were reviewing our Poop Management Plan this morning while staring out at the backyard.

We realize now that, by adopting a new dog in the winter, we have somewhat screwed ourselves. The original plan was to train her to go in a particular part of the yard, so that the Shit Storage Zone would be localized, and so that we could enjoy in the backyard without watching for landmines.

If you read my blog, you know that Kris and I are launching a new podcast. It’s been an interesting mental process, putting it together. We want to podcast…just to podcast, really. We’ve made friends with a number of folks out there. We talk to them, and they talk back via email, skype, twitter, etc. [...]

I’ve made three modest goals for myself this year:

Lose 75 lbs by Dec 31, 2008 Write as often and as well as possible Relax and declutter my life

Most folks I’ve told these to have told me that #1 was the hardest goal. I think [...]

Coming off of a month of almost no podcasts, RSS feeds, IM, and Twitter gives you an interesting perspective. This online world of messaging is loud. It’s like walking out of a quiet cabin and onto the trading floor of the New York Stock Exchange. Everyone is shouting for your attention. Twitter, popping up [...]

Day 2

It started off by waking far too early with the realization that I had to wash my clothes. Calling down to the front desk revealed that the hotel did not have a public washer/dryer, and the laundry service had already left for the day. Off to the bathroom sink I went, to wash my [...]

To say that DragonCon is large a bit like saying the ocean is salty. Intellectually you know it to be true, but nothing can prepare you for the real thing.

I don’t think I’ve ever been around so many people at once. So many people, and yet, so many different types of people. When [...]