by jdsmeaton | Sep 4, 2024 | Creativity, Inspiration
Time To Get Lucky Sam Parr, one of the hosts of the My First Million podcast recounted a job interview he had at Airbnb. He had made it through the preliminary interviews to the final with company founder Joe Gebbia. Joe only asked one question. “On a scale of 1 to...
by jdsmeaton | Aug 7, 2024 | Creativity, Recommendations
Everything you want is on the other side of fear. That’s an adage that’s been bopping around my head recently. I’m not sure fear is in the way of everything. I often want cookies and fear rarely holds me back from those. But I get the truth of that statement. One of...
by jdsmeaton | Jul 3, 2024 | Creativity, Storytelling
Hey, That Was My Idea There is this interesting phenomenon called simultaneous invention. This is when the same idea shows up in different places independently or when a discovery is made simultaneously by multiple scientists or inventors. This happens in comedy too...
by jdsmeaton | May 22, 2024 | Creativity, News
Some Fishy Advice In the movie Finding Nemo, Marlin and Dory have just lost their only connection to finding Nemo. Marlin is despondent but the oblivious and optimistic Dory asks “When life gets you down, do you know what you’ve got to do?” Marlin does not want to...
by jdsmeaton | Apr 10, 2024 | Creativity, Writing
The Thief of Joy: Overcoming the Comparison Trap My wife and I were talking about our career paths and aspirations. The conversation drifted to comparing our current situations to those of others we perceive as more “successful.” I’ve certainly tumbled...
