Content and Distribution

You create content. You distribute content.

Last week, Kevin Rose decided to point kevinrose.com to his G+ profile. Tom Anderson wrote a guest post on the matter and touched on the merits of owning your own data and using Facebook, Twitter and G+ as distribution channels. Later on, Fred Wilson crystalized that idea beautifully.

As of today, this blog will move away from Facebook Comments to using Disqus. Not only is Disqus is a better service, but I wanted to keep things separate, rather than have Facebook own my comments.

Separate content from distribution. Host your content on your own domain and use Facebook, Twitter and G+ for distribution.

Far beyond driven

I love what I do. When I am working, it doesn’t feel like work. It also means that any stress or fatigue is usually the cause of something peripheral to the actual work.

If you love what you do, then work itself becomes part of the reward, and, more often than not, leads to better quality work, crafted with passion and pride.

You might say that what you’d love to do isn’t economically viable. The value you’d deliver isn’t clear to you or your potential market. These are all questions that you need to answer as part of the process.

You’d be surprised how getting in the headspace and starting your journey will uncover solutions and opportunities to problems you may think are insurmountable.

If you’re going to spend a large portion of your life working, it would be smart to choose something you enjoy. It’s never too late to start doing what you love.

Small steps

Once a day, note down one thing that you did well and one thing that you feel you should improve on. In a matter of days you will have a list of things to work with. You will start noticing patterns in behavior. Group things together around specific areas.

Two schools of thought on what to do next:

One will tell you to continue doing what you did well and improve on what you haven’t done so well.

The other will tell you to get even better at what you did well and discard what haven’t done so well.

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