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Confidence for good - Bobulate
People, both women and men, should be so fiercely passionate about good ideas that self-promotion is a natural extension. Otherwise, why is it worth doing in the first place? It’s when confidence and self-promotion are obfuscated from passion that the claims become flimsy and empty. Confidence can bridge the gap between desire and outcome as long as the integrity for what we believe and the authenticity of what we create remain in place. We have the ability to both do good work and to recognize it — the choice is ours to make. Confidence is good’s natural extension.
design  creativity  career  good  confidence 
march 2010 by mattb
On Vacations, Rest, All-Nighters and Planning
Workaholics will eventually kill long term team productivity. Lone wolf heroes on the permanent all-nighter schedule are toxic. Find your threshold. Go somewhere sunny. Or just go home for the day. Don’t pull your team down because you refuse to take a break.
breaks  vacation  work  creativity  culture  articles 
january 2010 by mattb
Write When Inspired – Jeffrey Zeldman Presents The Daily Report
Write when inspired; rest when tired.

If you want to be great, or at least to be better, start by breathing, taking breaks, and working intensely when the mood is on.
zeldman  creativity  design  productivity  writing 
november 2009 by mattb
Routines for Creativity
Routines give us structure, and this is good for creativity too. Whether it’s writing for 30 minutes every morning or meeting with friends once a week to brainstorm business ideas, these rituals tell our brains and bodies to get into a specific mode at a certain moment. It’s like your subconscious saying “okay left-brain, you turn off for a little while and let right-brain do it’s thing.” Routines get us into a rhythm and allow us to shift from thinking to doing. Routines help us make shit happen.
lifehacks  creativity  patterns  habits  routines 
february 2009 by mattb
On Permanence
The problem is that when we’re in front of that blinking cursor, everything is so easily editable that we get caught up in do-mode. When we try to review things, we think, “oh, that’s an easy fix, so I’ll do it right now,” and instantly return to do-mode. We keep bouncing back and forth between the two without maintaining the proper altitude to see the bigger picture. To use the forest-from-the-trees analogy, it looks something like this:
permanence  do  gtd  design  blog  inspiration  work  article  tips  writing  organization  creativity  life  review  productivity  ideas  essay 
february 2009 by mattb
Risk-inverse
"What I told our company was that we were just going to invest our way through the downturn, that we weren’t going to lay off people, that we’d taken a tremendous amount of effort to get them into Apple in the first place—the last thing we were going to do is lay them off. And we were going to keep funding. In fact we were going to up our R&D budget so that we would be ahead of our competitors when the downturn was over. And that’s exactly what we did. And it worked. And that’s exactly what we’ll do this time."
economy  blog  inspiration  apple  creativity  economics  investment 
february 2009 by mattb

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