No matter how many…

…fancy productivity tools I try, nothing keeps me on task like a sticky note and a pen.

…rapid prototyping tools I try, nothing moves as quickly paper, tape, and markers.

…keyboards, effects pedals, and recording software options I possess, nothing writes songs like my notebook and guitar.

…social media accounts I have, nothing connects like eye contact.

…points of inspiration I look to, nothing stirs up ideas like quiet.

“Happiness isn’t on the road to anything. Happiness is the road”

“Be kind because everyone you’ll ever meet is fighting a hard battle.”

Both are from his autobiography “Chronicles, Volume One.” I just started it tonight.

I just received an email that said “wut r u doing 2night?”

I hope the energy saved from the six letters they didnt have to type was worth coming off like a barely literate pre-teen.

ps: I still think “LOL” sounds like someone choking on a plum.

I wish I’d written this. I know I’ll use it:

The Cult of Done Manifesto, by Bre Pettis and Kio Stark

1. There are three states of being. Not knowing, action and completion.

2. Accept that everything is a draft. It helps to get it done.

3. There is no editing stage.

4. Pretending you know what you’re doing is almost the same as knowing what you are doing, so just accept that you know what you’re doing even if you don’t and do it.

5. Banish procrastination. If you wait more than a week to get an idea done, abandon it.

6. The point of being done is not to finish but to get other things done.

7. Once you’re done you can throw it away.

8. Laugh at perfection. It’s boring and keeps you from being done.

9. People without dirty hands are wrong. Doing something makes you right.

10. Failure counts as done. So do mistakes.

11. Destruction is a variant of done.

12. If you have an idea and publish it on the internet, that counts as a ghost of done.

13. Done is the engine of more.

(via Behance Team Blog :: Respect for “The Cult of Done Manifesto”)

Lots of you know this by way of Twitter or Dopplr, but in case you don’t - I moved from Dallas to Brooklyn last week.

Please get a load of this supercool graffiti from around my block (snapped with my phone, because I don’t own a legitimate camera):

…and this last one isn’t really graffiti, but either way, I appreciate where the building’s heart is:

It’s easy to be inspired here. I like it a lot.

I just found out my friend Trey ordered one of these. He is now the most futuristic person I know.

¡Olé!

I know that only like two of you out there care (hi, Mom….hi, Dad), but thanks to Dopplr’s public profiles you can now check out my upcoming travel schedule. It’s also a nice showcase of my bulbous carbon footprint.

If you’ll be in the same town as me any of these times, please hit me up so I can buy you a beer. Or rootbeer or ice cream or sack of Andy Capp Hot Fries.

View Brent’s travel schedule on Dopplr.com

Here’s the good news: Amazon is giving away hundreds of free mp3s, including tracks from Ani DiFranco, The Streets, Jackopierce, My Morning Jacket, and Loudon Wainwright III. Click here to get em while they’re hot.

There is no bad news. Happy Thursday.

(via kottke, via the millions)

…can be as addictive as any drug.