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Advice to someone who just moved to NYC and wants to break into the comedy scene:


One, I would take some classes at the UCB. Two, the secret to the success of The State was we never waited for anyone to ask us to do anything, or for anyone’s approval to do anything. We just fucking did stuff. We were shooting all the time, writing all the time. We would put up a live show every couple of months. We were aggressive. If you wait around for an opportunity to come up, it’s not coming. It isn’t, ever. Opportunities are not coming. The only opportunities that are coming are the ones you create. Otherwise you are just waiting around.

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Thomas Lennon (via Splitsider)  (via anthonyking)

This is spot-on.  Take UCB class, meet other awesome people, and go out and make stuff on your own terms.

(via charlietodd)

Charlie Todd gets it. This stuff he clipped applies in Austin, too. Check it one point at a time:

  • “never waited for anyone to ask us to do anything, or for anyone’s approval to do anything”
  • “just fucking did stuff”
  • “shooting all the time, writing all the time”
  • “were aggressive”
  • “Opportunities are not coming. The only opportunities that are coming are the ones you create. Otherwise you are just waiting around.”

Keep doing stuff, Austin. Don’t wait around.

(Thanks, Charlie.)

Instapaper included in Apple’s Hall of Fame

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merlin:

instapaper:

Apple published a special App Store Essentials section this week: the Hall of Fame.

I’m honored that Instapaper’s included. View it in iTunes.

Thanks, Apple!

Instapaper is the Dylan of iOS Apps. It’s when things really changed.

Congratulations, Marco.

Instapaper is one of the iPad’s killer apps.

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This Austin crusade involves exploring and driving and improving and extending and encouraging and celebrating this model (draft one): GTD + PWP —> SE —> VC getting things donepersonal web presenceself expressionvital communities Gonna be some serious fun. [image source and setting]

This Austin crusade involves exploring and driving and improving and extending and encouraging and celebrating this model (draft one):

GTD + PWP —> SE —> VC

getting things done
personal web presence
self expression
vital communities

Gonna be some serious fun.

[image source and setting]

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jakelodwick: I just placed my second order for Doane Paper. Here’s the meme: During a break at a product design meeting I noticed that half the room was using grid paper notebooks while the other half used lined legal pads. What if I mashed up the two? After the meeting I combined the two stationary designs onto a single sheet. Now the user would have access to two proven stationary tools simultaneously. Personally, I use two of them every day, a big one labeled “Thought” for things I think, and a smaller one labeled “Action” for to-do items. The freedom of (lines + a grid) feels really good. I asked Chad Doane for a discount code for my blog and he gave me one. Enter the discount code JAKEDP for 25% off in the next 48 hours. (You can download this PDF and print a sheet for yourself if you want to try before you bi). GTD requires good note paper.  These look great.

jakelodwick:

I just placed my second order for Doane Paper. Here’s the meme:

During a break at a product design meeting I noticed that half the room was using grid paper notebooks while the other half used lined legal pads.

What if I mashed up the two?

After the meeting I combined the two stationary designs onto a single sheet. Now the user would have access to two proven stationary tools simultaneously.

Personally, I use two of them every day, a big one labeled “Thought” for things I think, and a smaller one labeled “Action” for to-do items. The freedom of (lines + a grid) feels really good.

I asked Chad Doane for a discount code for my blog and he gave me one. Enter the discount code JAKEDP for 25% off in the next 48 hours.

(You can download this PDF and print a sheet for yourself if you want to try before you bi).

GTD requires good note paper.  These look great.