12-02-2008: Ten Simple Tips

11-22-2008: Macho Macho Man Advice

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07-06-2008: Crash & Learn

Sound advice from Stefan Sagmeister's 'Things I Have Learned In My Life So Far'

12-01-2007: Think Good

As Paul Rand said: "Don't try to be original, try to be good." That's truly thinking different from the usual norm of 'be original'.

11-28-2007: Good Advice

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03-15-2007: TED Wisdom

TED 2007 just wrapped two weeks back. This year it was a celebration of icons, geniuses and mavericks with inspiring TED presentations and speeches from an eclectic group of people who can be considered closest to living icons, geniuses or mavericks.

Lorna Heff captures the 4-day event from an illustrators perspective. Seeing Lorna's sketches, I wish I had an ounce of her simple sketching skills. If I were to choose only one of the sketches and take it as advice or wisdom for life, I would choose the Karim Abdul Jabbar sketching. Because it is about positivity and possibilities.

03-14-2007: The Power of Scribbles

Ideas spring up in our mind at the most unusual of situations and places. Some of the most fantastic ideas have happened to their inventors in the oddest of places. The idea scribbled down on a napkin in a coffee shop or at a local bar table which became a ground breaking branding commercial is already part of advertising industry lore.

This one above is no such pathbreaking scribble. It is some original account planning advice from my friend Rob while we were chatting up at the Fullerton Hotel sometime back. Found it again in the back pockets of my pants. Just the fact that I had scribbled it enabled me to stumble on it unexpectedly later. Guess the same goes for blogs, Flickr et al. Tagging makes archiving a wonder.

02-01-2007: Fuck Off

Stumbled once again on to this piece of advice that my old VCU Adcenter professor, Pat Burnham, had hand-stamped for us when we were ready to graduate in spring 2002. It is quite a stark and funny advice, I would say. Just fuck off from here. And then get out into the real world and kick some ass and take name and do spectacular fuckin' work, as Pat has invisibly stamped on the paper.

01-22-2007: Share Ideas

As information turns into a mere commodity, the folks at W+K London encourages us to share ideas.

01-18-2007: Holy Cow!

As I sit gazing at my desktop, my desktop gives me this advice.