Write a book. Start your own Internet business.
I spoke to the San Francisco Coach Federation monthly meeting last night, at the beautiful Handlery Hotel on Geary in San Francisco. It was a well-organized meeting, and well-attended–I think there were more than 25 in the room. I shared how I came up with my BookProgram method for writing good books quickly. There were [...]
I just got back from our first Meetup meeting. Nine people showed up. I explained why people need to write a book, and how easy and fast it can be when you choose to structure before writing. We talked about why “the diamond is your friend,” and what that means to the process of writing [...]
I was reading about efficiency, about getting things done, when I came across the concept of a “displacement” activity, which was defined as something we do from some internal need for variation or incubation. I liked the term, “displacement”; it carries no hint of accusation or guilt induction. I think that many like me are [...]
Steve Levin pointed me to a wonderful article on digital publishing in the Wall Street Journal. It is a great overview of the publishing and self-publishing worlds, where they clash and overlap, and what an aspiring author should know about them. Thanks, Steve!
Most people are responsible. They make commitments and keep them, even when it is not convenient or pleasant to do so. We often say that someone who does that “has character.” “Character is doing the right thing even when nobody is looking,” said JC Watts. What has this to do with writing your book? Well, [...]
That’s the answer given more than two decades ago by Nicholas Negroponte (founder of MIT’s Media Lab and of the “One Laptop per Child” project) to the question, “What’s the next step beyond personal computing?” It came to mind when I read this piece from the New York Times this morning: I attended such a [...]