Okay, random enough.  I read a bunch of stuff today, and it’s rattling around in my head, and maybe some of it will be useful to you.

1. There’s a bookstore in Lehi.  I can verify this, because I just bought the book Three Cups of Tea from it.  I like the book, and I like the store.  It’s on the corner of 1st West and Main in Lehi, so 35,000 people drive past it every single day.  Go in.  Buy something.  Forget Amazon.

2. My sister Alison Wonderland wrote a post about how she’s adopted an alternative lifestyle.  This doesn’t mean what you think it means, but it does mean exactly what she thinks it means.  There are 23 comments, which is not a record for her, but it’s waaaaaay above average, so apparently she has hit a nerve.  I have only one thing to say about the comments – apparently people think that “conventional” means “everyone does the same thing”.  Being that I live the quintessentially conventional life that she is supposedly turning her back on, I have this to say about that: there are a whole lot more people living her uncoventional life than my conventional one.  A whole. lot. more.

3. It’s still a good post, and she’s a good writer and a better person, which is saying something.

4. There’s no such thing as “conventional” if “conventional” means “everyone does the same thing.”  Only “non-conformists” (you know, those people that all dress the same and laugh at kids that do homework) think that “conformists” are all the same.  My father and I are very much alike, and if you know us, we’re as different as water and rocks.  EVERYONE plays his music his own way, and playing a certain way just because you think it makes you different somehow is moronic.  Just play your way.  Don’t worry about the fellow next to you.

5. Apropos of that (sort of, and note that I used the word “apropos” correctly), here is a great post on microventures from the BrandBuilder Blog of Olivier Blanchard.  This man’s bog is under-read.  Seriously.  This is a good man who writes well, and I learned a week’s worth of lessons in the hour I spent reading through the last month.

6. For those of you in selling, and brother, that’s everyone, here’s a chapter from a forthcoming (I hope) book on selling from Kevin Hoffberg.  There’s some great stuff here.  Note that he starts his book the same way I ended #4 above.  That’s not a coincidence.

Go to it.  Send me some interesting stuff yourself, would you?

One Response to “Kind of Random”