It seems to take far too much effort to tell people what I do for a living. My actual job title is a throwback to the film industry, but what I do has very little to do with filmmaking. Traditionally, the Production Manager managed the crew and equipment, while the Producers managed the schedules &…
Author: kittyireland
Paying attention to attention, psychology, habits, art, writing, literature, mysteries, nonsense, addiction, humanism, humor and cake.
networking is easy
Networking is, for me, a dirty word. I hate schmoozing. I hate anything that smacks of self-promotion, especially if it is disguised as being “friendly.” I don’t need to be liked that much, and I don’t like people who are working hard to be likable. So I tend to avoid anything labeled a “networking opportunity”…
facing the fear of economic collapse
I’ve been alive long enough that I have seen many degrees of economic downturn. I remember the crisis in the late 70’s when I first learned what recession meant. I remember high gas prices and friends & relatives losing their jobs. I remember discussions about being more frugal and conserving energy and water. I remember…
pointless creative work is not pointless
My mom bought me a cassette by Harry Nilsson when I was about six. Besides being an excellent example of 70’s folk-rock, it is also a narrative about Oblio, a boy born with a round head in the land of Point. Oblio is eventually banished to the Pointless Forest where he soon realizes that everything…
speaking the truth, sharing wisdom
There are a lot of blogs out there that want to help you toward productivity, simplicity, abundance, good habits, etc etc. And they are, for the most part, well written and insightful. Or at least kinda insightful. There seems to be a lot of recycling of the same old principles… take a little buddhism, add…
jargonian nonsensicalness
I work in a field that is loosely connected to Marketing. Interactive media is almost always developed as some kind of marketing tool. I can’t really bitch about this (though occasionally I would like to), since people do need to communicate their message somehow, right? So I find myself often in the presence of Marketing…
Evernote is my new boyfriend
I feel a bit dorky admitting that I have totally fallen for Evernote. Maybe it’s still the honeymoon, but I sincerely think it may change my life. I like UI and I love the iPhone version of the app. Between Evernote and Things I won’t just get things done, I will get everything done! Today!…
The Great Depression Really Wasn’t so Great
Today I saw a headline on the newspaper about how people got through the “first” Great Depression and I immediately thought – with a bit of dread – of a book my grandma had when I was a little girl. It was a big musty hardcover book published in the thirties with recipes and tips…
working hard or hardly working?
I’ve been reading Twyla Tharp’s The Creative Habit on the recommendation of the Internet’s beloved Merlin Mann (take the time to watch the video). Tharp is a renowned choreographer, but the book has little do do with dance (except in reference to her medium and her creative problems, but not really the point). Every kind…
finding my voice
I’ve been blogging for a couple of years now, and it is always a little alarming to start up a new blog – especially in a non-social space like WordPress – because by all appearances no one reads it. I get a few views every day, so I’m not feeling totally alone here, but there’s…
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