follow your passion

"What makes you angry?
the usual: missing the previews, winning being valued more than the right thing to do, casting choices, willful ignorance, and plastic."

"Google thinks its new music service is completely legal, but that doesn’t mean that the record companies like it. A person from one of the big record labels told Billboard that Google warned them about the launch, but that “people are pissed” about the service anyway. It doesn’t help that Google blamed the record industry for being unable to reach a broader agreement to sell songs alongside the music locker service. As previously reported, the labels had problems dealing with Google because Google kept changing its mind about what the service was supposed to include. It toyed with the idea of offering a subscription service, perhaps in partnership with Spotify, but eventually launched just the locker service."

"Nobody tells this to people who are beginners, I wish someone told me. All of us who do creative work, we get into it because we have good taste. But there is this gap. For the first couple years you make stuff, it’s just not that good. It’s trying to be good, it has potential, but it’s not. But your taste, the thing that got you into the game, is still killer. And your taste is why your work disappoints you. A lot of people never get past this phase, they quit. Most people I know who do interesting, creative work went through years of this. We know our work doesn’t have this special thing that we want it to have. We all go through this. And if you are just starting out or you are still in this phase, you gotta know its normal and the most important thing you can do is do a lot of work. Put yourself on a deadline so that every week you will finish one story. It is only by going through a volume of work that you will close that gap, and your work will be as good as your ambitions. And I took longer to figure out how to do this than anyone I’ve ever met. It’s gonna take awhile. It’s normal to take awhile. You’ve just gotta fight your way through."