Putting My Face on a Name

I'm excruciatingly close to launching my first info product under Mementum. It's only a month behind my initial dream/schedule.

It's interesting how your mental dynamics change when your personal brand is a front-and-center aspect of a product. Does each decision beg for more care, deeper consideration? Do you become more risk-averse, no matter how perceived that risk may be? Does your perception of risk increase?

The world would be a far different place if our personal brands were front-and-center of everything we did. The difference, I think, is that it would be a far better place.

I hope this project works. That will make my world a far better place.

Link

Try this.

In the clouds VS on the ground

It is unsettling (at best) when you realize your vision of your reality doesn't match the reality of your reality. It is an easy trap to fall into: diverting your attention to what you're going to do, what you did back then, whose email address you have, even what you think you're doing right now.

What, exactly, are you doing right now?

I think that is one of the most difficult questions to answer with absolute honesty. And the hard part isn't about being honest to others; it's about being honest to yourself.

Dreaming is easy. It's the micro-steps and their aggregation that I've become most interested in: connecting the very short term to that maddeningly elusive very long term.

Classic Re-Raise

Loosen your grip too much and time has a way of slipping past you.

Over the past 6-ish (!) years of blogging, I've noticed that my writing dips when things are either extraordinarily good or extraordinarily bad. This past Fall was the most sustained period of extremes I've ever experienced, though I'm not yet sure on which side the coin fell.

I've been thinking about you all along, but now I am back and ready to paint you the pictures my eyes have seen. I'm not a fan of "I'll blog you later" prose, but for now that will have to do. Many Dreams have gone, but many more are yet to come!

Let's do this again, this time with even more pleasure.

Watching from the dark corner

I left today with next to zero energy, covered in a film of flour, remnants of poolish drying on my forearms and the largest burns I have ever received gracing my arms. I have never been so excited for a weekend in my life, compounded by the fact that most of the Barn crew will be gallivanting around the city with me. (Jenny)

3 tenses

Rain pours down from clouds, but the words fail to flow out of your weaving thoughts...

Thanks for the well wishes. He had a good run, and that's all we can ask for. RIP:




He was your Elvis, and when your Elvis dies, so does the private lie that someday you will be young once again. (Thanks Tom.)

On Culture

At the end that is nothing but supporting my theory that there is nothing like a good culture and a bad one, but the only way to get developed is by blending the pros of cultures. (Ali)

A House Mix Tale

me: Black Out or Go Back Out

Sent at 6:01 PM on Thursday

Mallory: Don't really understand la pregunta

but I never blackout unless MW is in the room

just a rule

oh I guess it's more of a rule than a question, eh?

me: yes.

Mallory: hey can you transfer me MCombat?

I have an itch that needs scratching

me: ask that again

Sent at 6:06 PM on Thursday

Mallory: Can you transfer me Mortal Combat?

Kombat!

me: felt pretty good to say that, didn't it

Mallory: you know it

So you gonna leave me naked in the storm or you gonna help a sista out?

me: I'm still deciding

explain exactly what you will do after you receive it

Mallory: standard

me: step by step

Sent at 6:09 PM on Thursday

me: there's no way i'm scratching your itch if you don't scratch mine, too

Sent at 6:12 PM on Thursday

Mallory: While it downloads (20 minutes Bolivian time) I will go down to the Cholita on the corner store (to the right, 5 stores down) and buy 4 bottles of Boca Rica Rum and two 2.5 liter bottles of coke (grand total of 64 Bolivianos or $9.15). Return to house and get the 80's power hour DVD ready. As the folks at home make the House Mixes I will upload the song onto my ipod which I will then plug into the loud speakers. I will scream are you guys ready to rumble and blast the song and we chug along

as we chug along*

me: how big are the bottles of rum

Mallory: liter

me: why do coke's come in 2.5L sizes

Mallory: not sure

me: what song will you play after

Mallory: 2 are 7Bs and 2.5 are 8

me: or are you going to put it on repeat

Mallory: the first song on 80s is "video killed the radio star"

no it will start and end

The Yellow Wood

The story chain is on. I'll start it next week.

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There's a dream I keep having
Where my mama comes to me
And kneels down over by the window
And says a prayer for me