It’s important to fuck with smart people.
Duh right, who doesn’t want to surround themselves with smart, cool, intellectual, provocative people? A lot of people really honestly do want to be around the aura of smart but few actually make moves to do it.
I personally read the blogs of people who i think are smart, really smart. People who are serial entrepreneurs, business and technology leaders in the fields i ma interested in; mostly about social media, online and real life marketing, a few about design and stuff and i recently added some new age digital librarians to my google reader cadre. It really important to me to at least see what’s up with these people on a daily basis. You know check in with them see what kind of things the are working with today. Why? Because it’s the closest thing i can get to actually picking their brains. I get personal business tips from Tim O’Reilly, Mark Cuban, Marc Andressen and Seth Godin everyday, and you might not know who they are but in their fields they are the top and there are only a few hundred people that read these blogs. So i am getting some good inside info, for free, daily. These guys (and girls) are the leaders of their industry for a reason. Today Mark Cuban wrote a blog about releasing alums one song at a time over the period of a season, like a TV show every week. His reasoning was people are more likely to spend 99 cents every week for 10 weeks than spend the whole ten buck right now. Great idea, he was os into it, music isn’t his thing but he had an interesting perspective as a millionaire serial entrepreneur and music consumer.
And i can’t control what these guys post everyday, some days it’s not as relevant or juicy but i have enough subscriptions that if i don’t get a morsel of info everyday it’s probably because i didn’t check.
At this point in my life, fresh out of college, with a degree in a field I’m not particularly interested in pursuing as it was taught to me, being able to get advice on a daily basis from people i am trying to emulate is a REALLY helpful and constructive pillar. I want to thank everyone who’s blog i read and even though they may never read mine, i believe one day they will be hearing about me, my blogging and contributions to social computing.