Look What I Found… January 2, 2009

Shar­ing is a good thing, and I think I need to do more of it.  So, once every week or so I am going to put up a quick post shar­ing some of my favorite find­ings from across the web.  Look What I Found… I hope you enjoy.

• An Incom­plete Man­i­festo for Growth — Thanks to John Moore at Brand Autopsy for point­ing me to this great man­i­festo by Bruce Mau.  The arti­cle offers up some great tips on how to live life more fully.  Some of my favorites are #1 Allow events to change you, #3 Process is more impor­tant than out­come, #10 Every­one is a leader, #41 Laugh.  More than worth the cou­ple min­utes it will take to read.

• Diary of A Self-Help Dropout: Flirt­ing with the 4 Hour Work­week — Fol­low along as Wired Magazine’s Chris Hard­wick humor­ously explores  3 pop­u­lar time man­age­ment the­o­ries — Get­ting Things Done, Never Check E-mail in the Morn­ing, and The 4 Hour Work Week. Hav­ing exper­i­mented with these and other sys­tems, I found it fun to fol­low Chris’ crash course experiment.

• Happy new year — Seth Godin has a great take on the silli­ness and poten­tial sur­round­ing the new year.  Love this line… “Like an empty Mole­sk­ine note­book, the pos­si­bil­i­ties are excit­ing. Why not exceed them?”

• Pre­sen­ta­tion Zen: Struc­ture and Spon­tane­ity: Lessons from the Art of Jazz (part II) — Garr Reynolds dis­cusses the mas­ter­piece that is Miles Davis’ Kind of Blue.

• 27 Blog­ging Secrets to Power Your Com­mu­nity: Chris Bro­gan offers up some easy to imple­ment tips on how to improve your blog, increase your read­er­ship, and be a more effec­tive con­trib­u­tor to the ongo­ing online dia­logue.   Much of this stuff is com­mon sense, yet not com­mon prac­tice.   Chris always offers up great sug­ges­tions on his blog.  It should be required read­ing for any­one look­ing to improve their game.