Kris added The Elements of Editing - A Modern Guide for Editors and Journalists to his library.
- Kris Madden
- November 25, 2009
Richard Goosen: What advice do you have for entrepreneurs looking at Web 2.0 opportunities?
Mike Sikorsky: The first piece of advice I give to anyone I ever meet is to "just do it and shut up." Thunder in the mouth and lightning in the hand--stop talking. No matter how many books you read, no matter how much stuff you're going to think about, if you don't decide to do it, you're already dead anyway. Action is much better. If you act, you're good.
Second, do not work on things that no one wants. I know that sounds so stupid, but the number of companies I know that build inventory no one wants to buy is so high it's phenomenal. That is why the crowd part to me is so powerful. If you can't get a crowd around your idea, how else are going ...
"It is not easy for a man to adjust himself to the truth that the human race is such an inferior order of animal life, or that his own family is not much better than the human race in general.
It is natural for newcomers to expect a great deal of the family to which they belong.
In the end I decided I must consider myself my family entirely. I saw that I could not do much about the other members of the family. I decided I must do as much as possible about myself.
When I stopped expecting anything important of anybody excepting myself I began to find many things of worth in everybody else that I had never before notice, and I began to look upon the worthless things I saw with amusement.
This is an important achievement in the growth of a soul, for it is true ...
"It's not enough to put words together. One has to know something. One has to work at knowing something. One has to study and have something to say about the world. In short, one needs to be a scientist."
"I only wanted to tell people honestly: look, look at how badly you live, how boring are your lives. The important thing is that people should understand this; if they do understand this, they will certainly invent a different and a far better life. Man will become better only once we have shown him as he is."
Almost to a 100 pages, and while useful tidbits are spliced throughout the text, the book's extremely dull and monotone prose coupled with its overly repetitious factoids make the book less and less enjoyable.
Regardless, I'm trudging through it hoping to be a little "crowd" smarter by the end.
"Through accident, through luck, by design, or as a consequence of long earnest trying, a man transports his soul from where it was in the beginning to a realm in which the action of all creativeness is in operation, and consequently he himself is involved, by now quite naturally, in the schedule of the miracle of life itself, so that anything he does is virtually done for him. It is done swiftly and magnificently. The man himself, as a man, does little. He foes along with the schedule, as if his soul had lathed on an immemorial means of transportation, himself nothing more than a free rider. It is impossible to otherwise account for the music of Mozart or the plays of Shakespeare. These are works which came to pass as enormous events of nature come to pass. The man to whom this latching onto schedule happens is both fortunate ...
Kris added The Coming of Conan the Cimmerian to his library.
- Kris Madden
- October 7, 2009