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Re: Where To Go For Inspiration?

Tue, 21 Oct 2008 18:18:31 -0000

My I suggest http://www.letitshine.ca/
Hope it helps

Re: Where To Go For Inspiration?

jade — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 14:17:27 -0000

My choices aren’t always clear, and the decisions I make are not always the right ones. There are times when the going gets to dam tough and there are times that I really and truly don’t give a fuck. Often I wonder if love is practical, because if not for love would there be war. Is it worth all the hurt and misplaced hope? I tend to get cynical, mean, and short tempered. Common sense aint as common as you think it is, and those without it should be shipped to an island and left to fend for themselves. I know that’s wrong, but there are too many times that I feel like that. Why? Because all listed above aren’t what’s expected of me.

I am expected to know it, have it all, and make it happen. Whether my decisions are right or wrong, these decisions have to benefit either way. It doesn’t matter how fucking tough it get, I gotta keep it together. Love aint practical, but it feel fucking good, it’s worth fighting a war. Being mean, short tempered, and cynical are the side effects of too much common sense.

AAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

I know that I’m blessed to have all this to complain about, and I appreciate the things that bother me. It gives me purpose. I’m blessed to have choices and decisions. To live, learn, and love. How corny is that? But it is what it is.

The purple in the Irises this spring are deeper than a plum. My baby said ‘banana’, it’s her first big word! My seven year old is a true artist, mood swings and all. My five year old is truly a blessing, it makes you feel good to know that you child is kind and loving. My marriage may make it after all. My teenage sons are driving me crazy, literally, but at least they’re alive to do it. My husband and I still have time to help them become men of substance. We know so many in the grave. Like my Daddy say, I got the 5 basics: Love, Money, Shelter, Food, Heat

Re: Where To Go For Inspiration?

jodyreale — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 17:54:07 -0000

Try joining a community of writers--like the old fashioned, dead trees kind. (I wonder if there are any in NYC? :-)

Re: Where To Go For Inspiration?

LukeG — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 11:43:19 -0000

3 quarks daily (http://www.3quarksdaily.com/) is terrific.

Check out the about page: some of 3qd's (raving!) fans include Steven Pinker, Richard Dawkins, David Byrne (sweet!), and Nassim Nicholas Taleb.

Re: Where To Go For Inspiration?

Kyle Mathews — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 01:02:57 -0000

I just ran across a new aggregator that purposely targets topical areas not already covered by techmeme et. al, Check it out at http://polymeme.com. It's brand new but looks promising.

Re: Where To Go For Inspiration?

Josh Young — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 11:14:58 -0000

That's not really fair. An RSS reader crowds out the unknown (delicious unknown unknowns, actually, a la Rummy) only insofar as one's unwilling to click out of it. Meantime, an RSS reader is a fantastically efficient tool for absorbing the known (known unknowns, hopefully).

Re: Where To Go For Inspiration?

Joe Lazarus — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 12:43:01 -0000

For bigger images of the Tumblr Radar, try Radard.Tumblr...

http://joelaz.com/post/3952...

Re: Where To Go For Inspiration?

dominique — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 11:40:45 -0000

Are you interested in a demo ?

Re: Where To Go For Inspiration?

slowblogger — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 05:16:26 -0000

1. Welcome to slow blogging. You don't have to write one per day.
2. Join me in discussing capitalism (and Marxism). Like you, I am not very excited by this and that news. But I am with the ultimate questions of how should human beings live. We can have endless discussions without having to find another topic for tomorrow. I recently wrote about why capitalism should not be called capitalism.
http://slowblogger.com/2008...

Re: Where To Go For Inspiration?

Sun, 22 Jun 2008 20:55:17 -0000

Maybe this is what you are looking for... I have a blog that gives people inspiration and motivation. If anyone is interested, please visit sparkmotive.blogspot.com.

Re: Where To Go For Inspiration?

Chris Motes — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 17:36:59 -0000

You can always get inspired by watching the theme to The Greatest American Hero

Works for me! :)

Re: Where To Go For Inspiration?

fredwilson — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 16:46:15 -0000

Me too

Re: Where To Go For Inspiration?

fredwilson — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 16:46:14 -0000

I am not saying it won't happen. I am just saying it's not as likely to
happen.

Re: Where To Go For Inspiration?

fredwilson — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 16:46:11 -0000

I am blessed to have such great readers, it's what makes this blog to be
honest

Re: Where To Go For Inspiration?

fredwilson — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 16:46:11 -0000

That's not going to happen Ross.

I've tried dozens of times

It just doesn't work for me

Re: Where To Go For Inspiration?

fredwilson — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 16:46:10 -0000

Me too.

Snarky is fun for about a nanosecond

Nice is fun forever

Re: Where To Go For Inspiration?

fredwilson — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 16:46:09 -0000

Dave I love scripting.com

It's the best

Re: Where To Go For Inspiration?

fredwilson — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 16:46:07 -0000

I like the idea of a group reader

Re: Where To Go For Inspiration?

fredwilson — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 10:47:03 -0000

Thanks!

Re: Where To Go For Inspiration?

fredwilson — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 10:08:04 -0000

I write this blog mostly for me, not really for the people who read it. Its a diary, a public one, but its a place where I can work through my thoughts, I call it 'thinking out loud'

The reason I want to write every day is because its a routine, part of how I work

That's how this blog started and I don't want to get away from that practice

I understand that many readers may think the stuff I write about is forced or repetitive or boring. But I don't

Re: Where To Go For Inspiration?

fredwilson — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 09:57:03 -0000

I'll check it out

Thanks

Re: Where To Go For Inspiration?

paul gigi — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 18:51:12 -0000

maybe, like many of us, you've had your fill of "web 2.0."

it's increasingly predictable, incestuous and ultimately, boring.

Re: Where To Go For Inspiration?

antje wilsch — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 16:14:16 -0000

Hi Fred, I'm a writer for a site that features interesting people, and I have to say that I went thru a big cycle of what you refer to above. I even (ahem, sorry) stopped reading your blog for a while and many others I used to enjoy because I had to kind of de-process myself. After reading Scoble's post about whether to change his baby's diaper or answer another email I was really disturbed (not specifically at him just this whole plugged in thing).

I'm now finding inspiration in every day people. They are doing great things, and many of them are *barely* online.

If you want to read some interesting stories totally outside tech, feel free to take a break and read about interesting people on www.storyofmylife.com/story.... The only reason I'm here plugging the site is b/c I have been struggling with exactly what you were/are above and finally feel great about what I'm doing - what I'm doing now is not about me at all. I started and stopped my blog a hundred times, and wondered why I was doing it. When I started shining the spotlight on people who are out there doing great things and not very often getting recognition, my entire perspective changed. I must say, I'm a much, much happier girl now that I'm not plugged in 24/7.

Re: Where To Go For Inspiration?

Andrew Stuart — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 08:29:07 -0000

Blogging should be about expressing your genuine original ideas that you feel need to be shared with the world - not "finding something to write about". If you have nothing to say then PLEASE don't say something just for the sake of it. If you blog the for sake of it then you end up doing just what you have suggested - you end up commenting on what all the other blogs are writing about. Thats pointless and boring. If you feel that you need to regularly post to your blog (like every day) then your underlying assumption is that we want to hear your voice, not some valuable and original perspective that has arisen from your inherent creativity, experience and insight.

If you have nothing to post then it is time to slow down your posts to a slower pace to match your mind. No-one can be expected to be generating compelling and interesting thoughts daily and it is unhealthy for you to think not only that you should, but that others really care anough about your opinion to listen.

If you have run of of valuable insights then you really should probably think about retiring. It is hard for me to imagine being venture capitalist and not having a constant dtream of thought provoking things popping into my head.

Perhaps this is the essence of the problem with VC's - they think that they should be talkng constantly and that people will care about whatever waffle they want to spout.

Andrew

Re: Where To Go For Inspiration?

KevinD — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 07:01:47 -0000

Fred, take a look at my spam free community www.fuelmyblog.com there are over 13,000 blogs in this community, mostly unheard of by the A-listers. It is spam and porn free because we manually approve each user/blog (turn away around 30%),the simple layout allows a quick glance at each blog before viewing and we have 15 broad categories.

Some of the community successes, a homeless family blogged their way off the streets, the Dad became one of our community writers and now has a house and full time job, this guy is inspiring. We have had people meet up and become friends, some are now couples, we created a real world community book and managed to donate enough to plant 60,000 trees, but more than anything, it is a place to meet real bloggers. Very simple. Would love to see your thoughts.