Brent Mused in Business, Life Lessons | November 18, 2019

Choose Your Path Wisely

To stick with the pack, or leave it?
Probably the greatest, most troubling, and pertinent question of our time. Do I join the big corporation, or the small startup? Am I looking to be comfortable, or notorious? Is it the jump I’m afraid of, or the fall?
Both wolf and sheep come with their own baggage. The real question is: how well do you know yourself and situation to pick the right duffel?
– Gaping Void

Preparing to Live vs. Living

I know a lot of people who live in the future. A few in the past. And even fewer in the present. We spend much time thinking about what was and what could have been. And we spend much time projecting into the future and wondering about what may happen. Life unfolds in the present. […]

The Cave

It is by going down into the abyssthat we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble,there lies your treasure. The very cave you are afraid to enterturns out to be the source ofwhat you are looking for.The damned thing in the cavethat was so dreadedhas become the center. You find the jewel,and it draws […]

Comparison

Comparison is the thief of joy. Theodore Roosevelt Be cautious when you’re comparing yourself to others. You’re a singular being, once you’re an adult. You have your own particular, specific problems — financial, intimate, psychological, and otherwise. Those are embedded in the unique broader context of your existence. Your career or job works for […]

When did people start to care what others thought?

It’s social media. There is a constant looking, in life, for approval, and it really jars with me. But I’m a 51-year-old man. Nobody listens to me. Or they will stop listening to me sooner rather than later, so it doesn’t really matter what I think. But I grew up when punk rock was on […]

Want to make a living on Social Media?

Price only matters when nothing else matters

If you fail to distinguish yourself in any meaningful way, your customer will default to price as the final criteria. Barry Davret for Medium Almost every product becomes commoditised at some point. Differentiate yourself. Create a uniqueness to your offer.

The Peaceful Warrior

Better to be a Warrior in a Garden that a Gardener in a War. A young apprentice asked his teacher why, if he was striving to be inwardly calm and at peace, did he need to learn the ways of a warrior. “Would it not be more tranquil and serene to be a gardener and […]

How to conduct an interview

I’m very, very, very careful with my words…

A time for soul searching

I think we have created tools that are ripping apart the social fabric of how society works. The short-term, dopamine-driven feedback loops we’ve created are destroying how society works. No civil discourse, no cooperation; misinformation, mistruth. You are being programmed

Same Shit, Different Era.

I like newsletters, you only need 2-3 and you’re set. More than that and it’s just noise. Choose carefully. Hiut Denim’s is great, as is a guy called Josh Spector… not sure how I came to be on his list but this landed the other day and made me smile: Take a breath. The […]