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The War of Art – Visual Book Summary Part I and II | Sunni Brown
http://sunnibrown.com/2010/05/11/the-war-of-art-visual-book-summary/

Steven Pressfield’s The War of Art left an indelible impression on me (and many others I’m sure), so I decided to memorialize some of the lessons in a visual format. Both visuals were done by hand in one sitting,

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Awesome infographics on the War of Art.

Check them out

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Ian Betteridge on Comments
http://www.technovia.co.uk/2010/06/john-gruber-joe-wilcox-and-why-comments-are-anti-web.html

“When I link, though, I try to send my readers away. I share every bit of my traffic that I can. Do I tend to link more frequently to pieces with which I agree, or which I think are correct? Of course, because those are the ones I tend to consider most worth my readers’ time. But it’s certainly not true that I never link to pieces with which I disagree — or which are written by people who disagree with me.”

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Brian Ford on Comments
http://brianericford.tumblr.com/post/705640507/comments

When we bought our house, we looked out into the massive backyard and we were amazed by the lush garden brimming with flowers and vegetables and fruit trees.

That vision sucked us into a fantasy world of possibility: “Oh, what we could do with that! Vegetables from our garden for dinner! Sipping mojitos as we blissfully pluck flowers and water our lawn!”

Five years later, we’ve completely pulled out the garden (no more vegetables at all and only a few remaining flowers) whilst our trees rarely produce edible fruit. The only plant-like things that seem to thrive (whether we encourage them or not) are weeds and vines. Whenever something pleasant does bloom, our yard is overrun with rabbits and bees and wasps and squirrels.

Gardening—successfully gardening, anyway—is a ridiculous amount of work.

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I’ve been really been thinking about my approaches to comments on my blogs. This is the first of a few articles that I’ve been reviewing.

Ed

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Amplifying the lizard brain
http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2010/06/amplifying-the-lizard-brain.html

Not sure why you would want to reinforce the noise in your head that tells you not to speak up, stand out and do work that matters, but if you do, a surefire way to do it is to focus your attention on every piece of negative feedback in your environment. Or to imagine every possible disaster that could befall you, and to do it repeatedly. Or to carefully study anonymous comments, tweets and online reviews from people who don’t like the work you’re doing. Or focus on the one paragraph in your annual review called ‘weaknesses’. Or spend the day thinking about the one slip of the tongue you made this morning…

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Exactly - in fact I’m seriously considering acing comments. 

Ed

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