Unquiet Desperation

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There may be no place quieter than a con on a Saturday morning.
Still, I’m up. And this is the Penguicon Update: Day 1.
The con itself is good size…it’s pretty much taken over the Troy Hilton, which is not a small hotel. Like all Sci-Fi/Tech conventions, the glasses to non-glasses ratio is pretty [...]

Authors are now publishing their own books without a publisher. And some artists are releasing free audiobooks online, making money just like Radiohead or shareware software authors: via that old standby, The Tip Jar. You, the consumer, pay what you think is fair. The artist keeps every cent (or the vast majority of it) without [...]

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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 [...]

I totally blame Matt Selznick and P.G. Holyfield for this:

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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 [...]