In Over Your Head

Month: July 2010

  • How Confidence Works

    Dogs are great people trainers. Those of you that have dogs know this already, but my girlfriend and I have been learning it over the past few weeks with a new Whippet/Lab mix. It’s amazing. A dog will try to exert dominance over you again and again. If you don’t react appropriately, the dog realizes…

  • Shadows of Stories Unwritten

    This is a guest post by Chris Brogan of [chrisbrogan.com]. (Julien will be back tomorrow.) You have a finite amount of time on this planet. You have multitudes of ways to spend it. It’s up to you. Think about all the decisions you have to make. After you wake, you pee and wash up. It’s…

  • One Way of Abolishing Risk

    (This is a guest post by Everett Bogue the author of The Art of Being Minimalist and blogger at Far Beyond The Stars.) Julien wrote a post a few weeks ago that breaks down the essential elements of any success story: Cultural Transparency ÷ Risk = Upward Mobility. Hopefully this guest post can help expand…

  • The Importance of the Physical

    If you do yoga, your body is relaxed, so your mind is relaxed too. If you push yourself through long, tough endurance races, you know that pushing past your mental barriers is just as essential as training through your physical ones. In a lot of ways, the body and the mind are connected; just not…

  • Young = Flexible = Growth = Life

    Culture is liberated by delivery technology, but is restricted by business. The web is a delivery technology. So is the US Postal Service. So are text messages, and so is language. All of culture passes through these methods. It cannot exist without them. Culture is restricted by business models. The album is not the ideal…

  • The Hero’s Journey; or, Waiting To Be Saved

    When I was young I utterly worshipped Midnight Oil. They were a highly political, environmentally-conscious Australian band who wrote an 80s hit, Beds Are Burning, but who had done a lot of other records they aren’t as well known for. I learned about them around 1992 from my cousin, bought all their records, and listened…

  • Making Yourself Unemployable

    I was at the bank today, dealing with a young, freshly-hired teller. It got me thinking about how my life could have been with just a few different turns. I used to find big, comfy jobs very seductive. I remember getting hired at Fido in 2002 and thinking “This is a big brand, a well-paying…