February 22, 2013
Inspiration for the song is said to be from Chan’s visit to South Africa where she met children orphaned by the diamond trade. However, she didn’t write the song until later. From Wikipedia (emphasis mine):
Marshall wrote “Cross Bones Style,” along with five other songs from Moon Pix, one night in the fall of 1997, after awaking from a hallucinatory nightmare while alone in the South Carolina farmhouse she shared with then-boyfriend, Bill Callahan. “My nightmare was surrounding my house like a tornado,” she explained. “So I just ran and got my guitar because I was trying to distract myself. I had to turn on the lights and sing to God. I got a tape recorder and recorded the next sixty minutes. And I played these long changes, into six different songs. That’s where I got the record.”
Oh to be struck by such a muse.
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April 15, 2011
There are two of pieces of media I consider essential in understanding what informs me both as an employee and as an entrepreneur. One piece is a video of David Heinemeier Hanson (a.k.a. DHH – inventor of Ruby on Rails), a partner in 37signals, the maker of Basecamp. First, a little background on that business.
Quoted by 37signals on April 13 2011:
Basecamp was done almost entirely without risk. It was completely self-funded. We treated it as a side-product and a side-project until it could pay the bills. And only then did we make it the main focus of the company.
I absolutely hate risk. I think it’s a misnomer that entrepreneurs somehow are in love with risk and making big gambles and taking big bets. I think that’s probably true for some. It’s certainly not true for me. And I think it’s certainly not true for a large constituency of other successful entrepreneurs.
I think the act of putting yourself in a position where you’re not forced to take on all this risk and bet everything is the hallmark of running things well.
— David on “The 8BIT Podcast.” He talks business philosophy, 37signals, and REWORK (interview starts at six minutes in).
The video I find inspirational is a talk DHH gave entitled A Secret To Making Money Online at Startup School in 2008 (on Youtube and on dotsub with subtitles). Unfortunately the slides he’s speaking to aren’t available. But I think the talk is brilliant, even with his bombastic style.
The second piece is a slide show deck Netflix has shared explaining their corporate culture. It is inspiring, fascinating and transformative. (on Slideshare).
I hope you find them as informative as I do.
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