Who Inspires You?
Posted by Bill Rice on 04/11/08 in featured, ideas, identity, tweet, twitter
I have been running hard this week. Early wake-ups and late shut-downs. Running out of gas…
So, I popped open my RSS feedreader looking for inspiration (I suppose).
And, I found it in Chris Brogan’s “Inspiration and Origins“:
My big point: none of us are originals. It’s okay. And I’ve DEFINITELY done it myself, where I’ve thought something WAS my thought, only to find out that I was synthesizing something I read a few days back, or a conversation I had (Did that famously badly once, to a friend I love, and had to rescind). But if you KNOW you’re going to riff off someone, give a little link love and be done with it. Fair?
This is who inspires me:
- Dave Winer: I hate his politics. I often hate the way he treats past or non-friends. But, he has an amazing genius to him. I read every word. I love his pictures on Flickr. He seeds thought and software. He gets user-first design. I wish I knew him better.
- Stowe Boyd: I love his brevity. Master of 140 character poetry.
- Seth Godin: A storyteller. Creates simple, short stories that if absorbed yield big results.
- Joel Spolsky: Hero of the ISV (Independent Software Vendor). Master of effective software development methodology.
- Twitter: I find more who inspire me everyday.
Who inspires you?
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Jim Kukral | Apr 11, 2008 | Reply
Good thoughts here. I definitely keep a running log of people who inspire me. They’re like my muses as well. They push me to go bigger and think bigger.
Bill Rice | Apr 11, 2008 | Reply
Jim,
That is the important part isn’t it? Keeping that log and putting the bigger idea on paper.
I heard a story/study once that a much greater percentage (something ridiculous–like 80%) of ideas and goals get accomplished when you write it down and review it daily–regardless of the size.
Bill
P.S., You, Shawn, and Missy have been some of the people that Twitter has introduced me to that have driven new inspiration.