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The Year Without Pants: The Movie 26 Aug 2013 | 10:01 pm
For every book I do something different for PR and marketing. For The Year Without Pants (pre-order now), it’s a film. To help kick off our Sept. 17th book launch, we’re making a little movie. I hire...
Don’t Be Precious (with your ideas) 21 Aug 2013 | 01:48 am
Three magic words for people who create things are: don’t be precious. Being precious means you’re behaving as if the draft, the sketch, the idea you’re working on is the most important thing in the ...
How to survive and thrive with multiple stakeholders 15 Aug 2013 | 03:15 am
Each week I take the top voted question from readers and answer it (submit yours here). With 40 votes, this week’s winner was “How a manager can facilitate communication between technical and non-tec...
Why do we accept bad systems? 9 Aug 2013 | 12:01 am
Each week I take the top voted question from readers and answer it. With 45 votes, this week’s winner was “Why do we accept and perpetuate bad systems?” by Peter Samaur: Examples – 2 lanes of checko...
Scoble’s review of The Year Without Pants 8 Aug 2013 | 07:16 pm
The official launch date for The Year Without Pants: WordPress.com and the Future of work is September 10th, but early copies went out recently to reporters, media and reviewers. The first to post abo...
Facts and Myths about Remote work 1 Aug 2013 | 12:40 am
While working on The Year Without Pants: WordPress.com and the Future of Work (which launches Sept 2013), I’ve heard every misnomer and myth about working remotely. Here’s a rundown on common assumpti...
Why I’m making a film about Seattle 29 Jul 2013 | 11:44 pm
I’ve made my living as a writer in part because of of where I live. The city of Seattle has been an amazing place to be a maker of things, whether it’s books, software or just about anything. There ar...
Advice on visiting Tokyo for first time? 29 Jul 2013 | 08:43 pm
Later this year I’ll be visiting Tokyo for the first time. I’ve always wanted to go to Japan and finally I’ve lined things up for it to happen. Yay. In doing research and reading up on the city I fin...
Should your book be a memoir or fiction? 29 Jul 2013 | 08:02 pm
Here’s a common question about writing memoirs from the mailbag: I just read a novel I loved and was inspired to start writing a book. And I actually did start. The problem is the idea I have is ver...
Thoughts on Death to Bullshit & Information Overload 26 Jul 2013 | 01:45 am
I recently watched Brad Frost’s interesting talk Death To Bullshit (slides). He takes strong positions about information overload and advertising, and with down to earth charm, explores the evidence h...
