The Pursuit
Becoming a linchpin is a conscious, consistent choice. It’s also a choice to live your life either trapped by your constraints or reaching beyond your limits. It’s a choice for a true tomorrow–not...
View ArticleSutton’s Boss Rules
Bob Sutton released Good Boss, Bad Boss–and supported his then new work with a Harvard Business Review series “12 Things Good Bosses Believe“. Over the rest of 2010–he explained 12 things that were...
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Crafting Your Community
Linchpins don’t act in isolation. They grow with and through others. They ship their craft as often, as unpolished, as intimately as possible. They connect to us, and that connection drives their...
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Freedom is…Writing Naked?
Writing while wearing nothing isn’t my best creative uniform–but having the courage to ship my writing to a faceless, massive audience exposes me to a flinch–to an awesome and humbling level of...
View ArticleLinchpin Postlogue & Benediction
Seth Godin has given us a term that combines artists and artistry: Linchpin. Linchpins make even the most mundane of jobs artistic. Linchpins are people willing to be different, reframe the status quo,...
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Extreme Leadership–The Challenge of Leading
“Learn how to lead where you are now, Travis, and it’ll serve you wherever you go in the future.” That’s one of the many leadership lessons I’ve learned and acted on from my friend and mentor, Steve...
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2013 Three Book Diet
Chris Brogan is starting a Three Book Diet (#3BD)–reading only three books over the course of the next year. Given how much I like books–I easily buy 20 a month–I’m sure I couldn’t stay focused on...
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Four Hour Chef, Amazon, and Protectionism
Information has many media, but few middlemen. But when those middlemen build control through the media–both structure and channel–and use their control as an oligopoly or monopoly to filter the...
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Four Hour Chef: First Lessons
“The professional trusts the mystery. He knows that the Muse always delivers. She may surprise us. She may give us something we never expected. But she will always put something inside the box.”...
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Top Five Metaphors of 2012
As a storyteller, I’m constantly moved by and moving towards a good story. The right story in the right context is the perfect fit of a puzzle piece. The stories we tell are the foundational strands of...
View ArticleDecoding Lexicon in 12 Quotes
Lexicon is the future. I read Max Barry’s latest book in a day. A really long day. Here’s a book combining Fight Club, Harry Potter, Neuro Linguistic Programming, and The Matrix. Sprinkled with...
View ArticleFailure is a Bitch
And she plays with all of us. I read Mark Ecko’s new book Unlabel–an open, honest memoir over the fortunes and failures Ecko had in making his brand a billion-dollar behemoth. He almost went bankrupt...
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5 Ways Social Media is Like Boxing
Wine–Jets–Social–Family If you know anything about Gary Vaynerchuk–you know those four words summarize 90% of who he is and what he resonates. I first heard of Gary Vee at SXSW 09–I had no idea Wine...
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Why I Write
Sometimes–we start doing something before we realize why we’re doing it. I’ve been writing for almost two years–and the purpose has changed almost every time I hit publish. But looking over two years...
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Styrofoam Cups
“the ceramic cup they gave me last year…it was never meant for me at all. It was meant for the position I held. I deserve a Styrofoam cup. [...] And when you leave your role, which eventually you...
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Top Metaphors of 2013
Better late than never. I usually use my first posts of the new year to talk about three things: my Annual Review, my Top Blog Posts, & my Top Five Metaphors of the previous year. I got two of...
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2013 Three Book Diet
Chris Brogan is starting a Three Book Diet (#3BD)–reading only three books over the course of the next year. Given how much I like books–I easily buy 20 a month–I’m sure I couldn’t stay focused on...
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Four Hour Chef, Amazon, and Protectionism
Information has many media, but few middlemen. But when those middlemen build control through the media–both structure and channel–and use their control as an oligopoly or monopoly to filter the...
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Four Hour Chef: First Lessons
“The professional trusts the mystery. He knows that the Muse always delivers. She may surprise us. She may give us something we never expected. But she will always put something inside the box.”...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Top Five Metaphors of 2012
As a storyteller, I’m constantly moved by and moving towards a good story. The right story in the right context is the perfect fit of a puzzle piece. The stories we tell are the foundational strands of...
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