http://gapingvoid.com/2009/08/02/how-blogging-really-works-random-acts-of-traction/ "cartoons drawn on the back of business cards" Fri, 10 Feb 2012 23:17:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= http://gapingvoid.com/2009/08/02/how-blogging-really-works-random-acts-of-traction/#comment-50833 Don’t Push Rocks, Roll Snowballs « Innovation Leadership Network Wed, 09 Mar 2011 08:15:02 +0000 http://gapingvoid.com/2009/08/02/how-blogging-really-works-random-acts-of-traction/#comment-50833 [...] Innovation is the process of idea management. One of the critical steps to successful innovation is getting your idea to spread. Hugh MacLeod’s outstanding new book Evil Plans has a lot about how to get your ideas to spread more effectively. One of his tenets is that we should create random acts of traction. [...] […] Innovation is the process of idea management. One of the critical steps to successful innovation is getting your idea to spread. Hugh MacLeod’s outstanding new book Evil Plans has a lot about how to get your ideas to spread more effectively. One of his tenets is that we should create random acts of traction. […]

]]> http://gapingvoid.com/2009/08/02/how-blogging-really-works-random-acts-of-traction/#comment-35238 All worth a look: June 10th – June 17th Tue, 22 Jun 2010 11:22:26 +0000 http://gapingvoid.com/2009/08/02/how-blogging-really-works-random-acts-of-traction/#comment-35238 [...] how blogging really works: random acts of traction | gapingvoid – Hugh MacLeod on how you can’t predict what efforts will snowball and what ideas will fizzle and how it relates to fail fast & often. [...] […] how blogging really works: random acts of traction | gapingvoid – Hugh MacLeod on how you can’t predict what efforts will snowball and what ideas will fizzle and how it relates to fail fast & often. […]

]]> http://gapingvoid.com/2009/08/02/how-blogging-really-works-random-acts-of-traction/#comment-25679 Maria Droujkova Thu, 06 Aug 2009 00:42:14 +0000 http://gapingvoid.com/2009/08/02/how-blogging-really-works-random-acts-of-traction/#comment-25679 You may get a kick out of it (if you read comments, that is). "Social math object" is a regular part of the Math 2.0 interest group discussion. Your blog is where I got "social objects" from in the first place. It just made a lot of sense as a part for a research or practice framework. I use it all the time now. Here is the Math 2.0 wiki page about it: <a href="http://mathfuture.wikispaces.com/math+social+objects" rel="nofollow">http://mathfuture.wikispaces.com/math+social+objects</a> You may get a kick out of it (if you read comments, that is). “Social math object” is a regular part of the Math 2.0 interest group discussion.
Your blog is where I got “social objects” from in the first place. It just made a lot of sense as a part for a research or practice framework. I use it all the time now.
Here is the Math 2.0 wiki page about it: http://mathfuture.wikispaces.com/math+social+objects

]]> http://gapingvoid.com/2009/08/02/how-blogging-really-works-random-acts-of-traction/#comment-25678 Christine Korol Mon, 03 Aug 2009 17:13:24 +0000 http://gapingvoid.com/2009/08/02/how-blogging-really-works-random-acts-of-traction/#comment-25678 This is so true and it's liberating once you make this realization. Why worry about whether something will work? Just do your absolute best work and see what happens(very Taoist). No need to let yourself become paralyzed or attached to the outcome because you will be busy working on your next idea. Over dinner last night I was also told the best line I've heard in a long time and it's in keeping with your post: "I remember when zippers were invented. I never thought they would last." Chet, ~86 years old. This is so true and it’s liberating once you make this realization. Why worry about whether something will work? Just do your absolute best work and see what happens(very Taoist). No need to let yourself become paralyzed or attached to the outcome because you will be busy working on your next idea.
Over dinner last night I was also told the best line I’ve heard in a long time and it’s in keeping with your post:
“I remember when zippers were invented. I never thought they would last.” Chet, ~86 years old.

]]> http://gapingvoid.com/2009/08/02/how-blogging-really-works-random-acts-of-traction/#comment-25677 Jess Meats Mon, 03 Aug 2009 10:47:31 +0000 http://gapingvoid.com/2009/08/02/how-blogging-really-works-random-acts-of-traction/#comment-25677 The point about not knowing what will take off is very true. If we could predict which ideas would fly and which would flop, we'd all be millionaires. Someone I know made a similar point in a presentation once. He showed a graph of the amount of effort he put into his projects plotted agains the likelihood of the project being a success. It was a horizontal line. The point about not knowing what will take off is very true. If we could predict which ideas would fly and which would flop, we’d all be millionaires.
Someone I know made a similar point in a presentation once. He showed a graph of the amount of effort he put into his projects plotted agains the likelihood of the project being a success. It was a horizontal line.

]]> http://gapingvoid.com/2009/08/02/how-blogging-really-works-random-acts-of-traction/#comment-25676 Doyle Mon, 03 Aug 2009 01:15:10 +0000 http://gapingvoid.com/2009/08/02/how-blogging-really-works-random-acts-of-traction/#comment-25676 If plan A doesn't work don't give more plan A - go to plan B If plan A doesn’t work don’t give more plan A — go to plan B

]]> http://gapingvoid.com/2009/08/02/how-blogging-really-works-random-acts-of-traction/#comment-25675 Richard Michie Sun, 02 Aug 2009 22:59:29 +0000 http://gapingvoid.com/2009/08/02/how-blogging-really-works-random-acts-of-traction/#comment-25675 This is the new marketing tenant old marketing just doesn't get. Time and again I hear 'We're not putting our case studies up for free, someone else will use the idea' I guess I wouldn't mind so much if the ideas weren't already there any way, its just we're not getting the kudos for it. This is the new marketing tenant old marketing just doesn’t get. Time and again I hear ‘We’re not putting our case studies up for free, someone else will use the idea’ I guess I wouldn’t mind so much if the ideas weren’t already there any way, its just we’re not getting the kudos for it.

]]> http://gapingvoid.com/2009/08/02/how-blogging-really-works-random-acts-of-traction/#comment-25674 Dayne | TheHappySelf.com Sun, 02 Aug 2009 22:56:30 +0000 http://gapingvoid.com/2009/08/02/how-blogging-really-works-random-acts-of-traction/#comment-25674 What a fantastic post. That quote from Doc in regards to blogging is absolutely correct. It's amazing the ideas and concepts that resonate with people, and the one's that don't. It really can not be predicted. There is nothing so liberating as creating. Creating a blog, creating artwork, etc. It doesn't matter. The beauty is in the process, in creating snowballs and seeing how big they get, what kind of impact they will have...and most of all, surrendering to it all. Thanks for the insightful post! Cheers Dayne What a fantastic post. That quote from Doc in regards to blogging is absolutely correct. It’s amazing the ideas and concepts that resonate with people, and the one’s that don’t. It really can not be predicted.
There is nothing so liberating as creating. Creating a blog, creating artwork, etc. It doesn’t matter. The beauty is in the process, in creating snowballs and seeing how big they get, what kind of impact they will have…and most of all, surrendering to it all.
Thanks for the insightful post!
Cheers
Dayne

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