By Jeff Goins // originally published at https://medium.com/the-mission/the-system-i-used-to-write-5-books-and-over-1-000-blog-posts-5872451d7461 Most writers struggle with getting their writing don…
Modern society tells us to do well in school, work as hard as we can, and eventually teach our kids to do the same. It’s an endless cycle that doesn’t exactly leave much room for creativity. This …
So many videos suck. Whatever kind of video — Youtube, Facebook, event videos, training videos, movies — there are lots of reasons so many videos are unwatchable. The good news is that most of th…
One of the presents I got on my 40th birthday was a make-your-own hot sauce kit. My family knows me well—I slather the stuff on just about everything I eat. My go-to hot sauce is Frank’s Red H…
The freelance ball is rolling, and things are slowly happening. The new podcast is in production, and there are more videos are on the way. Despite extreme pressure, I haven’t shaved off my bear…
So here’s what I want to do: I want to take a gradient, and extract each color node as a swatch. Just grab the color and add it to my Swatches panel. Sounds easy, right? You fool! It’s not…
In my newest vlog series, I’m documenting the journey I’ve begun: the sudden leap from full-time salary status to full-time freelancing. New vlogs will be added regularly.
Over the last few months I’ve designed, developed, and launched a much-needed website update for my friends at the Pennsylvania Activity Professional Association. I’m happy to be actively …
http://www.theverge.com/2016/2/16/11018018/5d-data-storage-glass Hopefully this will be a thing? I hate dealing with the headache of file storage and backup. Every year brings me more terabytes of dat…
I’m working through some course materials and this week was introduced to the Eisenhower Matrix (or Box). It’s a productivity tool in which you split a page into four quadrants. Column 1 i…
I chuckled when I saw “flock-sourcing” listed as one of the “Jargon Watch” terms in David Schwen’s recent column in Wired (Feb. 2016). Here we go, I thought. More senseless hipster lingo…
Last year I replaced both of my Panasonic GH1’s with wonderful GH3’s. A tremendous upgrade! My video productions have never looked better. For 2014, I’ve decided to blow the entire y…
I installed the Vine app on my Android phone and tablet as soon as it hit the Play Store yesterday, and finally got around to posting my first video. It was the perfect way to thank Shadow Windhawk, g…
I decided to brew my second batch of beer solo, after creating my first batch a few months ago (which turned out wonderfully) with my friend, a veteran brewer. It’s really not that difficult …
Well, the backlash against the big dark Creative Cloud looming over us creatives’ heads has been amazing to say the least. Here’s what I’ve been seeing: Source: http://news.cnet.com/…
A couple weekends ago, I took another trip to the Erie Cemetery. I spent the better part of 2 hours there and snapped a couple hundred pictures, but left with well over half the cemetery to explore. I…
This news has taken me by surprise, but really I’m not surprised at all. Read about the big change at Videomaker’s website: http://www.videomaker.com/videonews/2013/05/adobe-drops-creative…
I couldn’t wait any longer — I knew it was only a matter of time before I would make the Panasonic GH3 mine. I’ve been shooting on GH1’s, and had never upgraded to the GH2. I&#…
Since Wegmans began stocking beer on their cafe shelves, I’ve become more and more interested in craft beers. I gave up on mass-produced corporate brews years ago for the tastier, more worthwhil…
