Re: Ah Dien, you've discovered the SECRET...and you told!

a good learning experience.... :)

> Dien really is right. The key really is to
> get started. Even though I've known this for
> years, it seems I have to keep relearning
> the lesson.

Rick, I'm a bit like that too....

There are things I learn, then I don't use them for a while, then I "rediscover" them.... :)

Sometimes, I feel this might be because I tend to like "experimenting" with this and that so much.... For example, I am really "experimenting" right now. I'm using a "don't look at the screen" technique (or the "turn off the screen" technique) while I write....

This is a good technique to be able to write the way you speak, I think. I tend to edit a lot AS I write if I look at the screen, but doing that can stop the creative juices.... Not looking at the screen, or turning off the screen (if you can touch-type), can be a way to STOP yourself from editing as you write, and it lets the creative juices flow more freely -- the way they do when you are talking....

Other times I use different writing techniques.... :)

> My most relearning occurred
> with, (as Gordon calls it - it doesn't have
> an official title yet), the "Executive
> Resume" project. I detailed that in a
> previous post. Anyway, as I said in the
> other post, I spent about 12-16 writing
> about something I knew and had done myself
> and voila! I had an "instant
> product." Now I'm just working on the
> back-end software product and the web site.
> The hardest part of the product development
> is done. I've overcome the inertia and
> started the project.

Rick, that sounds like a great product.... :)

So far, I've only created one "instant" product, though I haven't put it up for sale.... Probably some of my posts here at Sowpub could in fact be products (eg. small "booklet" type products) in their own right, or even more so if I strung some of the posts I've written together as chapters and organized them a bit.....

Particularly those posts where I've written about physics or the other sciences and related this scientific knowledge to concepts and principles in business....

Rick, Thanks also for sharing what you learned by getting started on organizing those seminars....

I know that not all my current ventures may work out, but it doesn't matter, because I know that I'll learn a lot by doing them.... :)

> Yup. And the beauty of this is that are two
> of us to please in this case, Gordon and
> Rick. No sales letter by committee. No
> splitting the pie into tiny pieces. No hotel
> ballroom. None of that.

Yes, I think doing almost ANYTHING by committee is a disaster! It can take three months to do a job that should only take 10 minutes.

I personally really enjoy joint venturing with others, but there's a limit.... I wouldn't want to joint venture with too many others simultaneously if I could help it, because then there are probably too many decision-makers....

I recently co-authored a physics research paper (currently submitted for publication) with 4 other co-authors..... The process of writing the paper was quite drawn out, I think partly because there were so many co-authors....

(In case anyone's interested in the topic of that research paper, it's about something called Bell's Inequality, which is about nonlocality in the universe -- how distant particles can be "connected" in their behavior to each other in a very strange way. This manifests itself as part of quantum theory.... It's a strange and interesting area.... I hope to write more about it here some time, if I can do it in a simple way....)

> I'm really looking forward to this because
> of all the new stuff that's coming out.

It sounds very exciting Rick!

I think one of my greatest pleasures is joint venturing with people who I like to talk to and hang out with.... Working with people you like is one of the nicest pleasures in life.... :)

(Well.... with your clothes on.)

Dien Rice