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MediaKoncepts Blog » Blog Archive » Kelly Sue DeConnick: How To Make People Uncomfortable (And Still Make a Living)
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Kelly Sue DeConnick: How To Make People Uncomfortable (And Still Make a Living). For more than a decade, Kelly Sue DeConnick has worked as a leading writer in the world of comic books, most notably on. Through her career, DeConnick has found that the best way to inspire, lead, bring people together, and motivate those who need a push is to make them uncomfortable. In this 99U talk, she shares her Five Steps to Becoming a Professional Discomfort Provider.”. About Kelly Sue DeConnick. Dropped in December o...
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MediaKoncepts Blog » 2015 » June
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Bevel’s Tristan Walker: The Best Ideas Are Brewed out of Authenticity. At 18, Tristan Walker had never even heard of Silicon Valley. By the time he turned 30, the New York City-native could boast of successful stints at cornerstones like Twitter, Foursquare, and as an entrepreneur in residence with the legendary venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz. We spoke with Walker about the advice that helped him most, and how rejection is actually a good thing. I knew I wanted to start a company, but I also kn...
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MediaKoncepts Blog » 2015 » May
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The Best Opportunities Are the Ones You Create for Yourself. The absolute best opportunities are the ones that we create for ourselves:. To architect the circumstances for opportunities, as Stone puts it, requires a few key critical components for creating our own opportunities:. Take even the lightest risks. 8220;An extreme example of creating an opportunity led to my first full-time job,”. The company loved the design so much they hired Stone to be a full-time designer. As Stone put sit, we’re likely m...
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MediaKoncepts Blog » 2015 » April
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An 18-Minute Daily Plan For Finding Focus. You could take any of a million approaches to organizing your day. You could convert your to-do list to a Post-it system. Ritualize a twice-daily prioritizing check-in. Or wake up at 4 AM. Work for five or six hours, then exercise and relax. Shane Parrish of Farnam Street. Step 1 (5 Minutes): Your Morning Minutes. Step 2 (1 Minute Every Hour): Refocus. Step 3 (5 Minutes): Your Evening Minutes. What did I learn today? Whom did I interact with? The beauty of Bregm...
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MediaKoncepts Blog » Blog Archive » Why You Should Carry a Notebook with You Everywhere
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Why You Should Carry a Notebook with You Everywhere. In an interview with Stussy. This is the way to really make use of all your ideas:. When you detect these patterns, you can start gathering these bits and pieces and turn them into something bigger and more substantial. You can turn your flow into stock. For example, a lot of the ideas in this book [Show Your Work] started out as tweets, which then became blog posts, which then became book chapters. Small things, over time, can get big. Alternatively, ...
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MediaKoncepts Blog » Blog Archive » How to Source Suggestions from a Reluctant Team Member
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How to Source Suggestions from a Reluctant Team Member. In my first article, I introduced the Ladder of Leadership concept. The ladder (below) is a construct for measuring and affecting empowerment based upon the words people say. The goal is to move all of your team members up the ladder so they are operating autonomously. Each rung of the ladder has certain verbal signifiers that, as leaders, we must listen for to adjust our leading style. The Ladder of Leadership. Imagine an encounter where one of you...
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MediaKoncepts Blog » Blog Archive » The Power of Taking Reading Breaks
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The Power of Taking Reading Breaks. Recently collected productivity tips. From several dozen top designers, and one of the recurring themes was the power of the reading break to re-energize and reflect:. Joe Stewart, partner, Work and Co. Jared Ficklin, Argo Design. I voraciously consume science fiction and peruse several design blogs a day. It keeps the lateral thought pathways open. Hector Ouilhet Olmos, product designer, Google. Keep a stack of interesting books on or near your desk. Why Pride is Good.
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MediaKoncepts Blog » 2015 » August
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The Many, Many Problems With Follow Your Passion. A lot of career advice is built around slogans like follow your heart or follow your passion. A popular YouTube video. Narrated by British writer Alan Watts, suggests that unless you ask yourself What makes you itch? And pursue the answer, you will spend your life completely wasting your time. Taken literally, however, the idea of following your passion is. The Problem with Passion. In 2011 I co-founded 80,000 Hours. That they change much more than we ant...
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Jesse Genet: Finding Promising Business Ideas Hidden in Plain Sight. When I grow up, I want to run a supply chain company, said no one ever. So that’s precisely why Jesse Genet founded the online shipping supplies service Lumi. Genet and Ango stumbled across this business prospect hidden in plain sight after they felt the pain of ordering packaging for their first entrepreneurial venture, Inkodye. Lumi has stepped in as a conduit between the customer and the manufacturing partner. Using Lumi.com,...Here,...
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MediaKoncepts Blog » Blog Archive » Christoph Niemann: How to Overcome the 3 Fears Every Creative Faces
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Christoph Niemann: How to Overcome the 3 Fears Every Creative Faces. In this 99U talk, illustrator Christoph Niemann shares his three biggest fears: the fear of not being good enough, the fear that our work will be irrelevant, and the fear of running out of ideas. Each of these cripple our process in different ways, but as. Niemann explains (complete with hilarious illustrations), there are solutions we can apply to each. The New Yorker, Time, Wired, The New York Times Magazine. His latest project is an ...
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