David Kadavy is author of Mind Management, Not Time Management, The Heart to Start & Design for Hackers.
This is week 3 of Creativity Bootcamp, based upon the Eight Life Hacks for Creative Thinking. Last week, I told you to Express Your Thoughts by doing some writing. This week, I want you to Use Your Senses. keep on reading »
This is week 2 of Creativity Bootcamp, based upon the Eight Life Hacks for Creative Thinking. Last week I told you to Move Your Body (how did that go?), this week: Express Your Thoughts. keep on reading »
For the next eight weeks – if I can keep my own self disciplined enough – I’m going to give you actionable creativity tips that relate to the Eight Life Hacks for Creative Thinking. This week: Move Your Body. keep on reading »
The ultimate Chicago roommates finder just got better with a new name, and a new platform. Almost four years ago, I started Flatmate Meetup as I was looking for a place in San Francisco. I found sending literally dozens of e-mails – and getting no response – to be utterly frustrating. Persuaded by a friend, I hopped on Meetup.com, and set up a mixer at a bar. It was an instant hit with all of the attendees. I later went to a housewarming party for a group of roommates that met at that event. keep on reading »
I recently started blogging a bit more on the official Kadavy, Inc. blog, Cost Per Wow. It’s a really simple Tumblr blog, and it’s been surprisingly simple to discern what thoughts and content are more appropriate to post there vs. here on kadavy.net. Cost Per Wow is more for business-related thoughts and observations. Kadavy.net is now, more than anything, about Being Yourself For a Living. keep on reading »
To invite serendipity and keep myself thinking creatively – and to remind me to just get out of the house once in awhile, I like to keep my computer rotating beautiful landscape and nature photos. To do this, I download them from this specific page on InterfaceLIFT, which is constantly being updated. Here’s a little video I made of the process: keep on reading »
There are two types of actions in this world: growing actions, and reaching actions. Growing builds mountains, and reaching forms shells. You should grow more often than you reach.
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I saw a talk by Jason Fried a couple of weeks ago, and there was one slide in his presentation that really resonated with me. keep on reading »
Being yourself for a living may not work for the you that you are right now. The old ways of doing things have molded your personality in a way that is incompatible with building an integrated life where work and pleasure are one in the same, friends and colleagues the same as well. The old world has compartmentalized our personalities. Mechanical reproduction and assembly lines have trimmed our talents down to neat little cubes that stack together. You aren’t a cubes. You aren’t a square. keep on reading »
Of all the things you could possibly care about right now, this post is #1. So, why are you reading it? It’s simple! keep on reading »