Be on Point: How to stop doing things that don’t matter

Thoughts from a year chasing split ends, random projects and fractured priorities, from IgniteNOLA, Feb 1, 2010.

Below are the slides from a little talk at IgniteNOLA on Feb 1, 2010, about how to stop doing things that don’t matter. In short, follow your passion.

Better in person, I hope…

Be On Point: How to stop doing things that don't matter

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Links to the items screen-captured in the presentation:

Slide 2: Social capital isn’t new, but everything about it is.
Slide 3: A Freemium Life
Slide 4: Tweet to request help to prep for this presentation
Slide 5: Making Myself Uncomfortable (A Zombie’s Journey)
Slide 6: How to Pack for a Nomadic Life (and the 79 things I packed).
Slide 7: A little known fact: I’m actually a baseball geek.
Slide 8: 34 Posts on Evolving Business Models in the Photography Industry
Slide 9: Slide from How to use Twitter to Market your Photography
Slide 10: John-John music video, by Jeremy Yuricek
Slide 11: Photo book on Blurb, INDIA, by Taylor Davidson
Slide 12: A “Personal API” could be a modularized, standardized interface for collaboration.
Slide 13: Workspaces and Aging, on IDEO blog
Slide 14: Comments by Taylor Davidson, on Backtype
Slide 15: The Drive-By Route, Dec 2008 to May 2009
Slide 16: How to Fail: 25 Secrets Learned through Failure
Slide 17: How can we “shape serendipity”?
Slide 18: Slide from How to use Twitter to market your photography
Slide 19: Slide from Trends in Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital from SXSW 2009
Slide 20: Slide from Making Yourself Uncomfortable from Tribecon

Also:

The view from the stage, at the start of my little talk.

Posted February 1st, 2010 in Announcements, New Orleans, Perspective. Tags: ignite, igniteNOLA, presentation.

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Hi Taylor
Glad you are still enjoying yourself : )

I have officially left my government position and will be joining a startup within the next month while also focusing on my SEO stuff. Things will become much more interesting. As you said, follow your passion.

Btw, I have started a new blog that will talk about how mobile will be the intersection of what you have been saying. I will be using iPAD as the focus but will generalised to mobile in general. That blog will also be a balance of writing for readers and for search engine. Will be a challenge but definitely fun.

See you around!

Aaron
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Hola! Congrats! And, of course, looking forward to hearing more
about the startup and your other project, best of luck in both of
them…
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Okay okay – you busted me. I'm doin' stuff that matters to someone else, not me. Thanks for the reminder.
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Not trying to bust ya; and honestly, for all that I talk about it, making passion pay is hard.
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