Short takes

I’ve been making an effort to carve out time to read the kinds of things that inspire me and get me thinking. I may not have time to write about them in detail, but I thought I’d share some links to things that have inspired me recently:

Chris Guillebeau on Fear and Permission – SO good.

Kathy Gould’s response to Execupundit on monks. I want monks at my library. I want to BE a monk at my library!

Interview with Russell Hancock at Creative Class. A sample:

The culture here is all about risk-taking and there’s a high tolerance for failure, and this has made it possible for innovation to blossom here more than most any other place you might name. You can feel it when you’re here – the buzz and the energy – and it brings out the best in people.

Enjoy!

Changing the definitions

Jonathan Morrow gets it right:

The people we pay attention to aren’t the masters of doing what’s “right;” they’re the misfits who have the courage to be wrong. They take whatever everyone else is doing in their industry and turn it inside out….

What I’m saying is you need to realize “right” and “wrong” exist only between quotation marks. Everyday, the world decides their definition, and everyday, we have the opportunity to influence what that definition becomes.

Revolutionaries don’t just burn the rules. They write new ones. In destroying the standard, they create the standard. It’s creative destruction at its finest.