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Pioneer Nation 2015 Recap
Pioneer Nation is a gathering of internet creatives with a blog and a passion, committed to doing what they decided was their work in the world. There's this weird synergy at the convergence of authenticity, audience, and the Internet, where people can find a good problem to be solved and offer a solution to anyone who has this problem, anyone in the entire world. Many of the workshops were taught by people who had found this convergence, people who crafted an offer and [...]
A long and safe life, or a short and daring adventure?
Which would you choose? A long and safe life, or a short and daring adventure? “Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming 'Wow! What a Ride!'” - Hunter S. Thompson When Scott Dinsmore published the last blog post of his life, he declared that he was [...]
Ten Things I Really Miss About Living In Costa Rica
It’s been more than a year since I left tropical paradise, and wrote about the Ten Things I Will Not Miss About Living In Costa Rica. As absence makes the heart grow fonder, now I’m homesick for that wonderful place. Here are the ten things that I miss the most. 1. Wearing Tank Tops All The Time It’s sunny and bright in Costa Rica before 2pm nearly every day of the year. If it happens to be the rainy season, [...]
WDS 2015 Scavenger Hunt and Bigger/Better
This is the third year I've done a treasure hunt for World Domination Summit; the first time, I didn't even have permission. I just crashed the registration party dressed as a superhero and started wrangling people into doing this crazy scavenger hunt across the city, and everybody had a great time. After I blogged about it I sent a link to the WDS Adventure Czar and said, "Do you want me to do something like this again?" With permission this time, I did an [...]
The Re-launch of my Weekly Newsletter – Habits of Excellence
Writing a newsletter can be very rewarding, stressful, introspective, lucrative, and ineffective. My weekly newsletter habit has been inconstant over the past ten years, and has gone through a lot of incarnations. This is what I've learned so far: The regularity of writing every week keeps your writing polished. It is only through regular exercise that any craft is kept in good practice; whenever I neglected to publish a newsletter regularly, I noticed my writing skills suffered from lack of [...]
“Heck yeah!” My WDS Experience in 2015
This was the last big year. Starting in 2016, the World Domination Summit will limit ticket sales to 1000 people, instead of the 3000 people it's been for each of the 3 years I attended. Photo courtesy of Armosa Studios and Chris Guillebeau My friends organized themselves into 3 groups of people this year: Ticket holders Ambassadors Un-conferencers There were so many peripheral events happening around WDS, many people chose to "un-conference" and attend these meetups and academies, without getting [...]