by Havi Brooks | Oct 26, 2009 | biggification
One of the things I’ve heard a lot of this year is how I (supposedly) have an unfair advantage by being kooky.* Because, apparently, life is harder for non-kooky people. The people who tell me this say things like: “Come on. You have a duck. You’re a...
by Havi Brooks | Oct 20, 2009 | biggification, stuff I think about
I have been working on a Declaration of Independence. Actually, it’s more like a Declaration of This Is My Life, Dammit. All this because I told the participants of my Right People Clinic that helping your Right People understand that they are, in fact, your...
by Havi Brooks | Oct 12, 2009 | biggification, my personal practice
Oh, boy. Cliff-hanger city! Well, not really. But kind of. Last Thursday we were talking about what it means to biggify what you do while staying in sovereignty. And I mentioned that I’d spent a week of my Extremely Necessary Vacation working on one tiny piece...
by Havi Brooks | Oct 8, 2009 | biggification, my personal practice
So the big theme of my Extremely Necessary Vacation has been sovereignty. That’s the very useful word I picked up from my dear friend Hiro and it refers to oh, pretty much everything I’m working on right now. Namely: not caring so much about what other...
by Havi Brooks | Oct 7, 2009 | biggification, updates & announcements
Right. That too. But specifically writing FAQs. Honestly. You have no idea how much I dislike it. This was actually “supposed to be” the post where I announce that I finally have one (three years after I decided I needed one) … but it’s already...
by Havi Brooks | Sep 30, 2009 | biggification
A while back I wrote about the “no one is interested in my thing” phenomenon. You know, when we jump to the big crazy conclusion that the reason people aren’t calling or hiring us or buying our stuff is that we suck. A lot. Clearly. And yeah, that’s us...