About this blog - Feb 6 2007 thoughts
Tuesday, February 6th, 2007I was asked the other day why, if I do marketing, I don’t write more about marketing on this blog. And the reason why is real simple. I write about what I’m learning and exploring. My friend M.W. says,
“We teach what we want to learn,”
and I think that’s true when things are best. Kevin McCollum, a producer of “Avenue Q,” “Rent” and other Broadway musicals, once said, “Repetition is the price of success,” and I couldn’t disagree more. I believe so strongly that as I get more successful, I’ll have more and more options, because this is how my life’s been working out already. I want to pursue those options, gaining deep knowledge in some areas (how to start a representative democracy) and skimming the surface in a few (how to make sweet potato souffle), but I never want to do the same thing, day after day, unless I’m growing and learning something new. I’ll make less money if that’s the price, but I’ve seen that I make more money over time from having lots of interests and doing lots of different things.
As a theatrical producer, I used to hear that it was my job to know a little about everything. As an actor in high school I was a better actor because of my involvement in tech doing sound and lights — I knew how to project my voice better; I knew some tricks about where to stand on stage for the lights and amplification. And in the little experience I’ve had as an entrepreneur, I’ve been told the same thing — know a little about everything. When I was a kid, my dad would say,
“Jack of all trades, master of two,”
as what seems to me was and perhaps still is, for him, an ideal (and not the only ideal).
And it’s delightful to me how my experience producing theater (where I learned, for example, about the value of testing out a production on a small scale for less money) improves my business wisdom (where it often makes sense to test out a production on a small scale for less money). It’s all interconnected.
On another note, I’d like to use the names of my friends and other people I mention in this blog, and tell stories about them, but this is a blog, and I don’t want to need to get pre-approval or risk embarrassing. Ah, the risks. The perceived isolation! I live in a world with M.X.A. and J.H. and M.W., alone in a sea of initials. No. Offline reality is far, far better than a blog.
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