December 31, 2004
how to be creative pdf
The “How To Be Creative” PDF at ChangeThis.com just hit #4 most downloaded manifesto. Thanks, Everybody!
[*Ahem* I hope you’ll download it, if you haven’t already, Thanks again…]
I seem to be making progress on the book front. Got publishing interest etc.
Book royalties being the miserable and pathetic little things that they are, the idea is not to live off them. The idea is to hopefully be able to turn one out of say, a thousand readers into proper, long-term, Hughtrain clients.
“Leveraging Upstream”, I believe is the business-speak term for it.
[THOUGHT:] The more I live in this Cluetrain/Hughtrain/Woo-woo-train universe of mine, the harder I find relating to the old universe I left behind. Anybody else having similar feelings?
Impossible to go back — even when as right now cash is very short. Is it not like Hunter Gathers versus farmers?
“Hunter Gathers versus farmers”? Hell, yeah
What about yourself?
Still in the old universe… trying to get to the new universe… Scary how few people here in this universe understand what the heck I’m talking about.…
Hugh,
You’d make a WHOLE HECK of a lot more money if you’d publish it yourself. In this day and age of reaching your customers directly via the internet, there’s absolutely NO reason to give up the majority of your profits to a publishing company. Particularly if they’re not going to invest millions of dollars in promoting it apart from your own efforts. I can tell you from experience, the more profit you have, the more you can afford to promote your book and YOU are the best person for promoting your book, not your publisher.
Cheers!
Dan Sherman
Once you taste the woo-woo crack, you never go back.
Heh heh heh…
‘woo-woo crack’
: )!!!
I’m am contemplating the struggle currently… Big fan of the facts, but takes convincing. Never related with the old way but I remain a hunter gatherer nonetheless.
heh. Yeah it is often a case of “Can they really still believe that”.
One piece of advice though. DO NOT read “The Future of Money” by Bernard Lietaer DO NOT investigate alternative currencies. Because when you stop believeing the whole money myth then you stop worried about being financially fucked.
Which feels good but everyone else is still playing them game which can be rather tedious.
Many thanks for sharing your thoughts about creativity. It would take too much space to write all I liked about it. Just a brief comment about one place I found resonating false.
“There’s only one problem. Team Players are not very good at creating value on their own.
They are not autonomous; they need a team in order to exist.”
First, none of us is really autonomous. Second, the problem that you describe is just result of our limitations.
There is something important that happens in good team collaboration. Something similar to what happens in a sincere dialog.