The Hughtrain
Every month I take a night to myself, get a bottle of wine, and curl up next to my laptop in order to take in the latest set of ChangeThis manifestos. I created this ritual for myself because if I don't devote one night to hammering through them, they probably get lost in my information shuffle.
Anyways...
I like ChangeThis for a lot of reasons. First off, it's free. A whole lot of smart people write engaging pieces that I don't have to pay for. Secondly, it's democratic. Anyone can submit a manifesto proposal, and if it's good enough, it can be published...again, for free. With the advances of Web 2.0, we've come to realize that there are a lot of brilliant people who get overlooked by the mainstream press and publishing goliaths. ChangeThis provides an outlet for some of these people.
This is my personal attempt to get you all, if you are not already, on the ChangeThis bandwagon. One of my all time favorite manifestos is The Hughtrain. I follow Hugh Macleod's Gapinvoid blog religiously because he is someone who has managed to thrive in the land o' business by using his creative gifts. As a lot of you are surely aware, surviving by creativity is hard enough; thriving is another thing altogether.
If you are not a follower of ChangeThis, Hugh Macleod's manifesto is a great place to start. ChangeThis, like inBubbleWrap, is completely free. But unlike inBubbleWrap, you get more than some dude writing schlocky copy about business books. You get really smart people writing poignant manifestos on topics that affect all of us.
So go check out The Hughtrain, then start a monthly ChangeThis ritual. That's another part of the fun - creating your own ritual. Root Beer floats while sitting on a bean bag chair? The corner table at your local wi-fi coffee joint? Anything is possible.
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