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One Great Read 0005 – This Must Be David Byrne
The following was sent to subscribers of One Great Read, an email newsletter I send out periodically. Check out the archives and subscribe if you would like to receive them via email in the future.
Looking at the list of subscribers, I think I know most of you personally. I’m also pretty sure most of you are music nerds, or at least music lovers. In my mind, if you fall into either category, you are undoubtedly a David Byrne fan. I mean, really, how could you not be? Over the weekend we watched the Coachella stream on YouTube and thankfully caught David Byrne’s incredible performance. He’s not only timeless, he’s still extremely relevant, creative and infinitely talented. If you didn’t catch him last weekend, make it a point to watch him this weekend. In the mean time GQ posted a long read on him worth your attention.
Chapters often have page after page of paragraphs. It just seems such an awful lot of words to concentrate on, on their own, without something else happening. And once you’ve finished one chapter, you have to get through the another one. And usually a whole bunch more, before you can say finished, and get to the next. The next book. The next thing. The next possibility. Next next next.
Read amazing comics all summer long: my top graphic novel reviews of the past year
Read amazing comics all summer long: my top graphic novel reviews of the past year
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Being a compendium of some of my most popular graphic novel reviews from the past year, from The Encyclopedia of Early Earth to RASL
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Topspin Tumblr: Required Reading: Phish-y Business, Quantifying Disruption, Rethinking Retail, D2C Journalism, Manufacturing Rebooted
Going direct-to-fan takes more than a website and an e-commerce store. It takes strategy, planning, and information. Below are a few stories we think are helpful for all three, as the latest installment of the semi-regular Required Reading column. Enjoy.
Another edition of Required Reading is up on the Topspin Tumblr.
Topspin Tumblr: Required Reading: Sales vs. Revenue, Timing vs. Planning, Ralph Stanley, Shane Carruth, and Using Metadata to Spread…
At Topspin, we’re obsessed with all things direct-to-fan. And that extends to our reading choices as well. Required Reading is a semi-regular series showcasing stories you may have missed, focusing on the obscure, the counter-intuitive, and the inspiring. Our goal is to connect the dots, educate, inspire and even challenge. Enjoy.
Enjoy this little reading list I put together for the Topspin blog. It’s going to be a semi-regular thing.
Required Reading 2012-10-20
I’m trying something new. 10 articles you should read every week or so. It’ll be a mixed bag of music, media, tech, health, privacy and other topics. I started feeling like I rad such great stuff that I need to find a better way to share it. What do you think?
Secrets To Finding Good Stuff
Over the past week or so I have had no less than a dozen people ask me the same question, “how do you find out about stuff?” One of the things that I preach to my staff at Topspin is to never answer a question for one person. Chances are if someone asks you a question, there are others who probably want to know the answer as well. Now it’s time for me to take my own advice.
The short answer is, I don’t find good stuff. I follow other people that find good stuff.
The important thing is that the good stuff is almost always pushed to me, which means I don’t spend nearly as much time as other people pulling the stuff. It’s an important distinction and it allows me to be on top of good stuff without a lot of effort. I could be a lot better about sharing stuff and I’ve recently employed Buffer to help with that.
Here’s how I do it:
- I get daily emails that pull popular links from people I follow via Curate.me or News.me.
- I subscribe to Dave Pell’s amazing Next Draft newsletter.
- I subscribe to Kale Davis’ amazing Hacker Newsletter.
- I subscribe to the Longreads weekly newsletter.
- I use the browse feature on Instapaper.
- I subscribe to a lot of RSS feeds via Google Reader, though I never actually use Google Reader. I use the excellent Reeder app on my Mac and iOS devices. Worth the small price. Here’s a direct download to my OPML file, which you can import into your own Google Reader account.
Follow smart people on Twitter and Tumblr. Follow the tastemakers and smartest people in your industry in both applications and check out the people that they follow. Services like Curate.me and News.me will work a lot better and help you cut through the noise.
Finally, make sure you’re not just pulling all the time. Push to your networks as well and let people know about the awesome stuff you find. Chances are you have an audience that knows less than you do and wants to know more.
How do you find good stuff?
“For a richer, fuller life, READ.”
Lovely vintage PSA for National Library Week circa 1961, a fine complement to these vintage literacy posters from the WPA.
[H]aving a touchscreen doesn’t preclude you from also adding a hardware button that makes the one single thing people do the most often with your device as easy and seamless as possible.