gapingvoid: "cartoons drawn on the back of business cards"

random notes

: On the phone to Doc Searls last night. He described gapingvoid as "Dilbert for folk with non-shitty jobs." Heh.

: In the future, the only people who will ever hire you will be your regular blog readers. That's already starting to happen some people I know. Start blogging YESTERDAY and get building traffic.

: Going to Paris next week. Hooray!

: Been writing a lot lately. Not been uploading new drawings so much, just reposting the old ones with the writing etc. Take it from me- it's really hard to write new stuff, draw new stuff AND hold down a job. I do my best but it's not always enough.

: The Book is now circa 15 thousand words. It really needs to be 30-40 thousand. Arrrrgh. It wouldn't be a problem but I'm already swamped with other things.

: Balance, Schmalance:

At its most basic level, the imagery of balance doesn't work -- the teeter-totter with our work on one side and something else on the other as we strive to keep them in perfectly equal weight.

I gave up on the idea of balance years ago (I think I was 15 at the time). Face it, People, we're entering The Creative Age. Hey, guess what? Anything creative is EXTREMELY time consuming.

: Paul Graham: "What The Bubble Got Right."

Now the pendulum has swung the other way. Now anything that became fashionable during the Bubble is ipso facto unfashionable. But that's a mistake-- an even bigger mistake than believing what everyone was saying in 1999. Over the long term, what the Bubble got right will be more important than what it got wrong.

That does it. As soon as I'm done with my current gig I'm moving West to Silicon Valley and joining The Revolution. Guess I'll need to find a job. Heh.

Posted by hugh macleod at October 2, 2004 11:05 PM | TrackBack