November 23, 2005
post-hughtrain
Kathy Sierra recently asked me, "So what comes next, after Hughtrain?"
Good question. The Hughtrain was written last year when I was still in the traditional advertising/marketing world. I no longer am. It was written as something to sell to other people. In the end I ended up just using it myself.
I want to keep making drawings [which is not the same thing as posting them online, by the way]. I want to keep selling suits. I want to keep selling wine.
I want to keep going to the local pub with Thomas twice a week, and to our favorite Chinese restaurant once a week.
I want to spend less time sleeping in hotel beds, more time sleeping in the bed of this certain Cumbrian girl I know.
I have no idea where blogging fits into all of this. That might be a good thing.
Posted by hugh macleod at November 23, 2005 8:56 AM | TrackBackLive to blog or blog to live... that is the question.
Post Hughtrain?
Perhaps it's a 'tighter' loose collection of skunk works* – maybe a more defined system of the parts that go into blogvertising?
You know good stories well presented for makers of stuff that doesn't scale – where there's some limits/restrictions on the products/services in terms of quantity/quality.
*talent, hard work, cooperation and not hierarchies, titles or bureaucracy. Dream on? ;o)
Posted by: Rob Sawkins at November 23, 2005 1:14 PMHughtrain hasn't even gone mainstream yet and you're already past it.
Damn man, you do live on the bleeding edge.
Rock on.
Posted by: David Burn at November 23, 2005 3:09 PMYou're back to flesh and bones activities. I think I should leave the brain rest a little bit as well.
Posted by: Roman at November 23, 2005 3:11 PMyeah!
Just received my bottle of Stormhoek today! I completely forgot about it until the mailman gave me the box this morning.
Nice packaging, I bet the wine is worth it.
thanks a lot.
effisk, happy camper.
(Paris, France)
Fatherhood:)
Posted by: Avi Solomon at November 24, 2005 9:49 PMWhatever it is, I'm sure as hell gonna enjoy reading about it.
Although, you know, the Cumbria stuff--that you should keep on the DL...
Posted by: communicatrix at November 27, 2005 4:42 PM