Tangled up with Apple iTunes Tech Support

October 25, 2011

I upgraded my iPhone, iPad and copy of iTunes to the latest version recommended by Apple. The iTunes version is now 10.5. The problem is that a number of my songs were missing. This seems to be a recurring problem when you have an external drive and the link between iTunes and the physical media [...]

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Do the Work

October 20, 2011

I am juggling some interesting opportunities at the moment. None of which are really “in line” with my core business. I spoke a fellow Twist Producer about one particular opportunity and told him I was going to pass. His comment to me was, “it’s difficult to keep centered when things like that show up”. Keeping [...]

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Two interesting news items from yesterday…

October 7, 2011

This is an email I sent to my company on Thursday, Oct 6th, the day after Steve Jobs passed away. I felt compelled to make it public: Team, By now everyone on the planet knows that Steve Jobs passed away yesterday. He only resigned six weeks ago from Apple so the world was pretty shocked [...]

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Steve Jobs – May his legacy endure

October 5, 2011

Apple has been a part of my life since high school. I remember having one of the original Macs and installing a retrofitted hard drive myself. I also remember cursing my newly minted Newton as I struggled to make it work. Little did I know that I was holding the artifacts of what would evolve [...]

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I screw this up all the time

October 3, 2011

I was typing out an email to an old friend and colleague when I ran into the dreaded grammar dilemma or “me” vs “I”. In my writing, I’ve become relatively good with writing things with a reasonable amount of grammatical accuracy based on how the sentence “sounds’ to me. But I am sorry, when it [...]

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Why is this happening to me?

September 29, 2011

People wonder — why is this happening to me? When will I get paid what I am worth? When will the normal that we knew return? Newflash — it won’t. Welcome to the new economy. Its different and it’s painful, but the shift from 30-years working for one company and getting the gold watch is [...]

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Write more, talk less

September 28, 2011

In a world where people spend a lot of time talking and likely even more time reading email, I agree with people like Seth Godin, Guy Kawasaki and Stephen Pressfield that its time to start writing more – essentially to create more and create often. I spend a lot of time reading and writing emails. [...]

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Remembering 9/11 Ten Years Later

September 11, 2011

As a kid I remember adults talking about where they were and what they were doing the day John F. Kennedy was assassinated. The same holds true the day Neil Armstrong walked on the moon. Ten years ago today our country was attacked by terrorists. Nearly 3,000 people died in New York, DC and Pennsylvania. [...]

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Bonnaroo – Peace, Love and Rock & Roll

July 4, 2011

I am not old enough to remember Woodstock when it happened, but as a kid I was certainly influenced by the artists and amazing music that was created on that farm in upstate New York. So when we got on invitation to attend Bonnaroo in Manchester, TN we were giddy at the prospect of going [...]

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The gift economy: Why I became a TWiST Producer

June 7, 2011

When I decided to remove the shackles of the corporate cube and begin a career hustling software, my life changed forever. I worked for some great VC-backed companies for the next 13 years and became a denizen of the “friendly skies”, hotels and fast food. In October of 2002 I made a big decision, a [...]

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