What to do when your ideas get stolen

“They stole my blog post!” I couldn’t believe it- another blogger ripped off an entire blog post I wrote and posted it as their own! They changed about five words in a several hundred-word blog post, but it was virtually intact word-for-word. At...
Just burn the box.

Just burn the box.

I work with a lot of creative people. Fascinating artists, designers, people who can take anything and make a snapshot-inducing experience that bends your mind with inspiration and wonder. It’s with birds of my own feather where I’ve come to reject the box...

Be a voice, not a parrot

Have you ever heard someone talking and it sounds like they’re just stringing quotes together? It’s pretty obvious. Nothing sounds original. You almost want to put air quotes on either side of them to set the right context for what they’re saying....

Ideas are clouds, not concrete

Ideas are cheap. Good, bad, any type of idea, it doesn’t cost you anything but brain power. Our brain neurons fire at unthinkable speeds, which produce ideas with hardly any effort at all. The problem with ideas is sometimes they’re hard to convey. Most...

The most valuable buried treasure

People are fascinated with buried treasure. It could be a fossil discovery, a treasure map, the Dead Sea scrolls, hidden memoirs of a genius, even pirate’s gold. Anytime a new discovery leaks, it’s a race is to see what treasures are found. When it comes...