The Friday Thing #846

The sun is out and it’s Friday where I am sat….hope the same for you.

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The Friday Thing #846?is coming to you form the C?te d'Azur this week where the talk is all about AI and creativity. I’ve had the chance to chat with lots of earlier in career creators who are pondering their future in the creative industries and in particular, what role AI will play. A few have asked me for advice and as well as sharing my own, I pointed them to something I shared with a friend in Seattle a few weeks ago that I thought was wonderful and worth sharing here. It comes from a piece written in The Atlantic by Jim VandeHei titled “What I Wish Someone Had Told Me 30 Years Ago” and adapted from VandeHei’s new book, Just the Good Stuff. I bought the book and plan to start on it during my trip home. In the meantime, here is what I expect could be the best paragraph in the entire book.

?The essence of my advice is always as Jim says, finding your own passions and not having them imposed by others. That takes courage because it’s easier to imitate another person’s path or follow the playbook – but it’s a more rewarding experience and outcome (in my experience) to follow your own path. And Jim nails it with that last line. Do it at your own pace and do it with a commitment that will astonish and sometimes scare the crap out of people. On a very trivial level, a colleague asked me this week how I manage to keep on top of my email while traveling, attending events, hosting panels, shooting videos, talking with media while in a sleep deprived state. My answer is I find the time because it matters (to me) to respond, to keep things moving and create something I crave – momentum. Forward motion. It doesn’t mean everyone else should do this – just that I have decided that it’s important to me and thus I pursue it with passion.

OK, that’s it for this week.

Music?this week is World (The Price of Love) by New Order. IYKYK.

Santé et bon vendredi.

-Steve