i’m going through my moleskine and adding notes and ideas that have yet to be graced with digital identity. i’ve been retrodating them to represent their rightful place in the flow of my thoughts, but they’re not all dated, so i just guess.
this one relates to the “shut up and get in gear” kinds of thoughts that i’m presently having, so i figured i ’bout as well just post it anew.
i think we were talking about guy kawasaki’s presentation guidelines in the art of the start

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i hate cookbooks for creativity, but sure, there are key points that can be made and learned from, and in some sense, each of us has to distill our own set of guidelines that we believe in.
but it’s really the culling of them that makes it work for us; it’s the trial and error that leads to the decisions.
does that mean that we can’t pull an eliza dolittle and give someone a formula that makes them lightyears better?
no.
but we shouldn’t be looking for henry higgins to bring us to the next level.
we should be diving in, making mistakes, keeping our eyes open, taking ownership of our own development.

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