March 31, 2011
You don’t want to change the world…
Everybody wants to be on the winning team.
Some people don’t care what team they’re on, to paraphrase Bob Dylan, so long as they’re winning.
I’ve been around those people all my life. Most were forgotten, by me and everybody else.
Some people don’t mind if they win or lose, as long as they don;t get hurt.
Some people don’t mind losing, so long as they get to play the game they want to play.
And then there’s the people who want to win, and win big, but ONLY if they somehow manage to improve the game overall.
Not just raise THEIR game, but raise THE game altogether. Even if when they’re losing, they seem to manage it.
Those people have the most fun. They’re also the most fun to play with.
And they also seem to win the most, over time.
My Interview With Paul Barron
Earlier this year, the restaurant business guru, Paul Barron interviewed me in Miami. One my my better interviews of late IMHO. So far it’s been viewed over 38,000 times! Thanks to Paul for a great afternoon.
[Official Blurb:] “Everyone has an Evil Plan, maybe it’s tucked away inside your mind or maybe you are developing one this very minute. But for the lucky few, we are executing it daily! Join us in this episode as we talk with the artist, innovator and evil genius Hugh MacLeod himself about the book “Evil Plans”.
“The Web works best when it’s spontaneous, creative, irreverent and slightly anarchic”.
You may have already noticed, I’ve been doing a lot of rapid-fire cartoon postings lately.
It goes to a point that came up when I was recently talking to Doc Searls on the phone…
“The Web works best when it’s spontaneous, creative, irreverent and slightly anarchic”.
With that in mind, I decided to do something about it. The Web had been feeling kinda stuffy of late…
So when I draw a wee business-card cartoon, at Starbuck’s or whatever, I simply take a snapshot of it then and there on my iPhone, then instantly post it on the web via Instagram… which automatically feeds onto Twitter, this WordPress blog, Facebook and my Posterous page.
Simple, fast and fun.
Art is more interesting when it’s liberated from its own self.
Not unlike human beings…
Spontaneous. Creative. Irreverent. Slightly anarchic.
Exactly.
