Resources

The following is a list of resources I’ve collected and written. I hope you find them useful and are able to use them as inspiration, motivation, or general knowledge. The collection includes a wide variety of information from tutorials to quotes to job openings.

It’s tough scrolling through the whole list, so if you want to hop around, you can click one of the quick links below to find resources on that specific topic

Tutorials  | Quotes  | Books  |  Jobs  |  

Do you have an interesting resource? Contact me and i’ll see about adding it to the list.

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On Being Original

If you’re not prepared to be wrong, you won’t ever come up with something original.”

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On Contribution

Leaders allow others to make a contribution.”

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On Inspiration

Inspiration is a guest that does not willingly visit the lazy.”

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On growth and success

A person’s success in life can usually be measured by the number of uncomfortable conversations he or she are willing to have.”

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On Getting Better

If you donʼt look at things from a realistic point of view and admit that things are not as good as they can be, they wonʼt get better.”


Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap… and Others Don’t
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On Being Yourself

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”

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On Hiring Decisions

The moment you feel the need to tightly manage someone, you’ve made a hiring mistake. The best people don’t need to be managed. Guided, taught, led – yes. But not tightly managed.”


Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap… and Others Don’t
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Second Story – Lead Interactive Developer Position

Overview

Since 1994, Second Story has conceptualized, designed, and developed interactive media experiences in diverse formats that enchant, inform, and entertain—pioneering ever more effective ways to inspire wonder and connect audiences to ideas and information.

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Second Story is looking for a visionary thinker with an inquisitive mind, who is keen to learn new technologies and accomplished at expressing creativity through Actionscript and the Flash platform and wants to embrace the opportunities emerging platforms like HTML5, OpenFrameworks / Cinder provide.

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How to Make A Youtube Instrument

A Youtube Instrument is an interactive instrument that can be played using only the video features of Youtube. If you’ve heard of the MysteryGuitarMan on youtube, you’ve probably seen his various youtube instruments. In this tutorial, we’ll learn how to make our own interactive youtube instruments utilizing the features of youtube.

What We’re Making

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Click the image above to see the results

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Book Review: Talent Is Overrated

TalentIsOverrated thumb Book Review: Talent Is Overrated Book Review: Talent Is OverratedWhat Really Separates World-Class Performers from Everybody Else?

That’s what Geoff Colvin in Talent is Overrated aims to answer through research studies of the most successful people through history. I covered a small fraction of the book in You’re not talented and why it doesn’t matter.

The conclusion is exceptional performance is acquired through years of deliberate practice, timing and being surrounded by the right people – not talent.