Advice from the successful radio host on ‘making independent media. Making it, and making it your job.’

Saccharine and cliché of course, but that doesn't make it any less important.

“For many years I worked in palliative care. My patients were those who had gone home to die. Some incredibly special times were shared. I was with them for the last three to twelve weeks of their lives. When questioned about any regrets they had or anything they would do differently, common themes surfaced again and again. Here are the most common five.”

Good oral history. This quote is a good takeaway:

"I think the thing I've really learned from James is a) patience, b) only work with people you love, and c) be very, very, very, very stubborn about everything. Because when you're capable and able to say no to stuff, when you're capable of writing your own story and being very adamant about the way that you're portrayed or the way that your records are made, people respond to it."

“Two quick points. Not every idea is going to work. Know that going in. Ideas tend to follow the path of least resistance and more often than not that path is the one where you find yourself talking an idea to death, by getting hung up on the ‘what ifs.’ So you need to actively push ideas out and embrace failure. Fail spectacularly whenever possible.

“Secondly, every single person I have ever met or corresponded with about leaving the work-for-hire world and trying to create something of their own, something that they really care about, says exactly the same thing. Win, lose or draw they always express the same thought and most of the time they say it in exactly these words.

“What they say is, ‘I should have done this sooner.’”

1. Understand the buyer.
2. Passion matters.
3. Charge money.
4. Experiment with tons of models.
5. Bootstrapping is the way to go.
6. Practice, practice, practice.

"I felt like a fraud every day. Here I was, selling a wobbly, buggy tool and pawning myself off as an expert in a field that didn't exist. (My software was the first commercial tool for code review.) Every second I felt like I was putting one over on the world."

A video by fiilmaker Andrea Dorfman and poet/singer/songwriter Tanya Davis.

"Society is afraid of alonedom, like lonely hearts are wasting away in basements, like people must have problems if, after a while, nobody is dating them. but lonely is a freedom that breaths easy and weightless and lonely is healing if you make it."

A very good, very important list.

Great, of course.

Great, modern, hip photography.

Playful and ironic photos and little installations.

Full-text transcript of President Obama's recent commencement speech at Arizona State University. This man can be downright inspiring.

Another one of these "How to Be Productive and Creative" lists, but they're good as inspiration/affirmations.

"Success is how many shining eyes I have around me." And that old chestnut about never saying anything to someone that you wouldn't want to be your last communication with them. Platitudes, yes, but very good ones. The second inspirational music-related video in as many days to have moved me to tears (yesterday's Sigur Rós MoMA concert being the first).

Beautiful photographs to demonstrate words.

Indeed!

Cute and well-done.

One of the best episodes ever.

"We had an idea. Go to a place. Ask fifty people the same question. Film their responses."

Simply a collection of beautiful book covers.

Stressing the importance of actively engaging everything that you take in and the way that you take it in, so you can synthesize and maximize and!

The ultimate resource for designing to a grid.

Filip Dujardin is an architect who in his spare time puts together photographs of buildings to form new structures.

On "shortening your workweek" in every way: outsourcing, clever promotion techniques, social engineering, and focusing on the right things.

Ten characteristics of creative people. (Basically, they're a beautiful mess of contradictions.)

How might we not even realize we want things? "I guess I'm talking about passive contributions of public behavior information to traditionally-sorted data."

Explanatory stills from (and a link to) the fantastic new Spoon video.

Check out "things for sale i will mail you" and everything else. Cute and creative and solemn and exuberant. Wonderful.

On crazy geniuses and products with and without imagination. "And the iPod itself is a shiny fruit fallen to earth from an enchanted tree in a mystical fairy land populated entirely by crazy geniuses."

A huge collection of excellent drawings, realist (and surreal) photography, painting, collages, and more. Good for wasting a few hours and wishing you were cooler.

Good pictures, good overview of his work, and, of course, sage words from the designer himself.

Or so says this guy. Basically, stop feeling sorry for yourself and getting wrapped up in your moods -- just go go go!

Awesome advertising campaign that arranges album artwork to create a bigger image.

Christopher Fahey lays out his. A by good set of commandments for happily and successfully working in design.

The professional work of Jason Nocito; absolutely fantastic and blissed-out. Check out the landscape-portraits.

The personal photography of Jason Nocito. Comparing and contrasting, visual puns and stoned friends, the elevation of the mundane. Fantastic!

Very nice, very creative business cards, but don't expect them to fit in your wallet or Rolodex. Check the comments for bonus footage from "American Psycho."

A very nice short history and profile of the Pentagram design and architecture firm.

Great interviews with web developers and luminaries, including Khoi Vinh, Jason Fried of 37signals, Jeff Veen, Merlin Mann, Heather Champ, Dan Cederholm, and Guy Kawasaki.

This is delicious. Don't miss the eye fish or the larval horse. Or the tennis ball or the library entrance.

From the masters. Good ideas and inspiration.

An interview with Apple's brilliant product designer, who possesses a "fanatical care beyond the obvious stuff."

Interesting videos from the experimental electronic musician. The third, "Phases," played behind him when he opened for Deerhunter in Boston in July.

An awesome collective of creative/design types. A great "About" page.

Indeed.

Design inspiration.

On programming well. Devote time to it, rewrite it completely, work without distraction. Echoes of "Getting Real."

A very interesting and multi-talented guy.

An interview with James Victore. "Yes. I’m afraid of everything. I am. But I do them anyway. This is my dharma. This is what I was meant to do. I just want to do a good job."

Excellent videos!