Every Four Years

It weeds out a lot of people.

Most of the Olympic events aren’t popular except during the Olympics. A short window for glory after years of thankless, fameless, lonely work. It’s not for everyone. It’s not for most people.

Most people are seeking a type of glory that is much more readily available.

Insert the social media game…the allure that you won’t have to wait, that all the glory is just around the corner.

Pick your game carefully. Pick one that you’ll be glad you played even if you don’t get all the glory you hoped for.

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Can You Get A Little Bit Better...

Right before you go on stage? Or is it already all set?

I’m not sure you can get more skilled during the few minutes before you go on stage but you can change your focus, which can make you more effective. Especially if you shift your focus to something you’ve had practice shifting your focus to.

Serving. Connection. Excellence. Joy. If you can take a few moments to reorient yourself towards something better, it will be better.

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Saving Too Much...

For the end.

This was my problem running cross country in high school…I had a really great last quarter mile. Too good. I obviously had way too much left in the tank that should have been used during the race.

But I liked being able to go fast at the end…even though that wasn’t the point.

Some people like the thrill of the chaos at the end of a project (and learn to steer the project into that chaos). Gotta go fast. Gotta stay up all night. More coffee. We’ve only got little more time.

But if you’re able to burn that hot at the end you could probably spread it out over the course of the project and finish in a better place.

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The Price Of Advance Tickets

When you buy an advance ticket to a show there are a lot of follow up emails before the actual show.

Where to park, vip parking, the weather forecast, gate information, other similar shows, route suggestions, exclusive merch opportunities.

But in all those emails, and there are oh so many, they never remind you how much you paid for the tickets :)

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Figuring Out Creativity

Too much time is spent trying to figure out creativity. All the blogs and books and making-of documentaries...we're looking for a secret.

Efficiency, commerce, status, templates, clicks…these things get intertwined with creativity and have lead many to believe creativity is a code to be cracked. When it is really these other things most people are trying to figure out. Creativity is just the label we throw on top.

Creativity is not figured out, it is carried out.

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The Puerto Rico Song

If you haven’t…here

A few things…

-Do we have a song of the summer for the first time in a long time?

-It’s fun and funny and catchy.

-I’ve had a million conversations about Suno and AI music…No one ever brought up the possibility of a song like this being the song that everyone would pass around. No one knows anything.

-I can’t tell if the collective everyone knows the song since the streaming numbers aren’t crazy, but I’ve been in two different green rooms with all different people and everyone knew it.

-Suno is really good at a handful of genres and this is one of them. The cheesy 80s tv theme song and voice. It’s fantastic.

-It’s been a long time since Weird Al or anyone funny has had a hit, which probably helped this one stick out.

-Speaking of sticking out…’one flag is white, the other dark blue’…it doesn’t rhyme and it’s amazing.

-Saxboy Billy has a bunch more songs that are a lot like this one, but they didn’t hit.

-You could easily make a bunch of songs that are a lot like this one, but they probably won’t hit.

-Saxboy Billy is honest about what his contribution is and what it isn’t.

-The original is just one time through the lyrics. The Spotify version is doubled. I prefer the original.

Here are some interesting questions throw around with your friends…

Is it a good song?

Is Saxboy Billy an artist?

Who should get paid?

How did Suno know to take his prompt and make that song?

How would you feel about it if the lyrics were also computer generated?

What about if there wasn’t any real person attached to it?

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