Hello again. I’m off on a new tangent this week, it’s been inspired by Yaro’s last post. Actually, I’ve had this niggling feeling I needed to take his advice since receiving the email in my inbox several weeks ago with tips on writing great articles – I just have so much spinning in my head that it often takes a while to action everything that’s fighting for my attention.
The Master Plan
Yaro’s great idea is to make top 10 lists of things related to my topic. He suggested a top 10 list of my favorite books on creativity. Whilst that’s a brilliant idea, there’s one small problem… for some terrible reason, most likely due to my own scattered brain, I’ve stopped reading books to completion. I get part way through them and charge off on other tangents. This is a considerable problem when it comes to making top 10 lists of [...]

Original post by http://ReplytoYaro.com (Yaro Starak)

Are you a married man? I am! Happily married now for five years, one month, and seven days at the time that I’m sitting down to write this. In the five years of my very happy marriage, and my dating years that came before, it has become quite obvious to me that, in many situations, guys can’t read girls’ minds. I know, it sounds strange, but follow me on this one.
Have you ever been in a situation where your significant other expects you to know what they are thinking, and you have absolutely NO IDEA that they are even thinking about something? If you are a guy, you’ve probably encountered this at least once in your life
In my Many years of marriage (ok, I know. I’m still a newbie), my wife and I have come to realize that if we want to know what each other are thinking, asking [...]

Original post by http://ReplytoYaro.com (Yaro Starak)

Your lawyer called. Three little words that strike terror into the hearts of men.  That’s was the message waiting for me when I got home.
And it wasn’t the inexpensive corporate lawyer. It was intellectual properties lawyer. Every time I talk to this dude, it costs 500 bucks.
Last time, some chump tried to take a run at me, for work that I’d done years ago. Then just before the statute of limitations ran out, they decided to take legal action.
Thank goodness for the “Printing Trade Customs.” It protects graphic designers, typesetters and print shops from many types of legal action.
It’s up to the client to proof the work. They approve it, when they sign off on it. The client can’t take a run at the designer after the fact, for things like typographical errors.
But… it still cost 500 bucks, for my lawyer to write the old client a letter, telling them [...]

Original post by Michael Campbell