JonathanFields

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by JonathanFields 16y ago
- Learn to build acoustic guitars, seriously jonesing to work with my hands more. - Publish my next book on uncertainty, art and entrepreneurship - Reanimate my digital publishing and book marketing brand - Continue to be present with my wi
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by JonathanFields 16y ago
There's a legendary book for artists called The Artist's Way about getting back your creative mojo and one of the first things the author talks about is something called your daily pages. http://amzn.to/ieS49z She suggests starting every
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IDEO Shares the future of the book(vimeo.com)
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by JonathanFields 16y ago
Solid basic template and core items to focus on. I've also found a lot of value from the free resources and webinar replays on optimization at http://www.marketingexperiments.com/ . Lot's of case-studies and examples with specific conversi
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by JonathanFields 16y ago
I'm traditionally published (Crown & Portfolio), but I've also spent a lot of time researching the options available for self-publishing and promoting. A few thoughts... 1. EBook or print + eBoook - If you are open to starting out with
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by JonathanFields 16y ago
Interesting, I've actually found the exact opposite to be true. If you self-publish and do the work of building a platform and marketing enough to show that you have to ability to move books in a real way, not only will publishers be more i
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by JonathanFields 16y ago
To me, passion in the context of starting and building a business is about a deep commitment to serve the a source of pain or create a source of delight for a market that you feel a strong connection to. If what's driving you is an attachme
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by JonathanFields 16y ago
Definitely an interesting observation, one I've been exploring a lot, too. What I've found, though, is that there's also a whole lot of mythology behind it. There are definitely people who are "built" with both the Jones to create in a cert
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Ask HN: Do you ritualize?
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by JonathanFields 16y ago
I look at our minds and bodies like a formula 1 car, you may not like it, but at some point you need to replenish. You can either do it in intelligent intervals that allow not to live with that lingering sense that you might blow up at any
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Door Chain or Motherboard?(digsdigs.com)
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by JonathanFields 16y ago
I generally focus on powerful images and one to three word phrases and use slides largely as an "emotion force multiplier." Even so, I don't believe any slide holds a candle to an exceptionally structured, well-told story. People remember t
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by JonathanFields 16y ago
I'd add - The best marketing is baked into the product, not bolted on later.
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by JonathanFields 16y ago
Beyond the spam issue, the twitter follower list isn't a very accurate list of people with genuine interest in a person or topic anymore. There are so many people and bots and who simply follow in the quest for reciprocation or at the behes
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A Business Creator Sees Big Returns From Social Media(nytimes.com)
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by JonathanFields 16y ago
Turning the Mind Into an Ally - is a great book to ease your way into a mindfulness practice. Great, practical, real-world, without being preachy. http://amzn.to/90fIv1
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by JonathanFields 16y ago
Mindfulness. It's also a pretty powerful tool to help lean into uncertainty while you strive to create something from nothing.
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by JonathanFields 16y ago
Yup, though Buddhists seem to have a few thousand year lead. Hopefully if won't take a few thousand more years to make the leap from neuroscientists to the general population.
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Gaping Void - Hacker(gapingvoidgallery.com)
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by JonathanFields 16y ago
Lemonade Movie ( http://www.lemonademovie.com ) - It's a short, beautifully shot documentary that tracks a handful of people who got fired in 2008 and took that as an opportunity to do amazing things with their next careers Also, gotta love
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My Extrovert Button is Broken(feld.com)
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by JonathanFields 16y ago
Stanford psych professor Carol Dweck has research and written extensively on how your adoption of either a "growth" mindset - achievement is largely work-based - or "fixed" mindset - achievement is largely gift-based - is largely determinat
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by JonathanFields 16y ago
Leo "uncopyrighted" pretty much everything a few years back, including all of his blog content as well. In fact, he doesn't even require attribution when copied. I've talked to him about it and he said not only has it not hurt him, he feels
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by JonathanFields 16y ago
Love Robinson's insights about creativity being a process, not an event, and it being available in different formats to everyone. Also, the notion that we each tend toward certain creative roles, using the example of Keith Richards creating
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Crowdsourced movie funding: selling one frame at a time(buyaframe.lemonadedetroit.com)
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by JonathanFields 16y ago
A couple of years back I was exploring models for a next-gen health club that captured peoples' energy through a combination of min-generators on cardio and piezo-electic devices underneath classroom floors. Back then, the cost didn't justi
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Sleep Loss Hits Extroverts Harder(medpagetoday.com)
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Jonah Lehrer dives deep into this his book, How We Decide. In an interview on the question, he answered - "For the first time in human history, we can look inside our brain and see how we think. It turns out that we weren't engineered to be
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by JonathanFields 16y ago
That's interesting, in his interview on Mixergy, PG was asked about investing in lifestyle businesses and he did not seem enthused - "there’s got to be an exit for it, equity holders to get any money. I mean, maybe — maybe in the future the
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by JonathanFields 16y ago
Where Good Ideas Come From by Stephen Johnson - interesting exploration of how connectivity facilitates ideation. Making Ideas Happen by Scott Belsky - great nuts & bolts conversation on moving ideas into execution Comfortable With Unce

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