I was thrilled when Narrative.ly asked me to contribute an essay about biking in New York. I love biking! Some of the most blissful moments in my life have been biking through Brooklyn on warm summer nights. But I didn’t write about that.
I wrote an essay about Bike Thieves for Narrative.ly. It’s been a while since I wrote something personal like this. Hopefully I’ll churn out a few more like this over the summer.
RIDE YR BIKE!
I feel like finding a job is kinda like finding a girlfriend. You can get a gig, ya know, for a week or a month or so, the same way you can get laid or find a spring fling. But it’s not going to last. The relationships that last are the ones that come from friends or friends of friends. And I don’t mean it’s all got to be a set up. Just simply that referrals and endorsements work in personal relationships similarly to how they work in professional relationships, if not with more gravitas. Let’s be frank: I’ll sleep with you on the first date, but if I’m hiring for a full-time position, we’re gonna have to take it slow.
Some people say, “Oh, LinkedIn is Facebook for the professional work force.” And they’re wrong. If anything, LinkedIn is the OK Cupid of the job force. The only difference is that OK Cupid doesn’t list your previous relationships… but maybe it should? Wouldn’t it be helpful to know if you just got out of a 6-year relationship? Or that her last boyfriend was a Black bloc anarchist?
And so I’ve tried recently to update my LinkedIn profile with all of this in mind. It’s a work in progress. Part and parcel to this whole “I’m blogging again” initiative I kicked up last week. We’ll see how it goes!
Take a look at my LinkedIn profile and let me know what you think? Thanks!
Last month Jenna and I spent a week driving around the West coast of Iceland… from Reykjavik to Ísafjörður and back again. It was the most incredible landscape I’ve ever seen. Iceland, which has something like 130 active volcanoes, is the youngest part of our planet. We traversed mountains and seaside cliffs, glaciers and fjords, paved and unpaved roads took us only some 300 miles but felt like a new, foreign planet with every turn.
Including our long weekend visiting friends in Copenhagen and our two-night stretch in Stockholm, I took over 3,000 photos with my new favorite toy, the Sony NEX-6. I’ve only just begun sorting through the digital stack of pics and hope to design a small photo book for friends and family by the end of May.
The last photography book I self-published, Westward, consisted of about 200 photos from a road trip across the USA. For this Iceland book I’m hoping to narrow it down to 400 or less, or maybe make two books? One of our trip and one book of just awesome landscape photos like this one?
I don’t think I could live in Iceland, but I’ll go back anytime!
Hey guys! It’s only been six or seven months since I’ve posted something here in the blog. I’ve been so busy! And it’s been great.
But that’s no excuse. Really, there’s no excuse for not blogging. It’s, like, super important.
So stay tuned! Maybe I’ll even write another blog post today that’s not about not writing blog posts. You’ll just have to wait and see!
Hashtag,
A.P.
The Yard: Space to Learn is a school to give entrepreneurs the skills they need to succeed.
The co-owners at The Yard have hired me to curate and organize this curriculum of continuing education classes. September’s classes include How to Kick Ass on Kickstarter, Get That YouTube Money, Hustle Harder: Get Paid for Your Creativity, as well as Photoshop 101 and business development courses.
The 27 educators I’ve hired are experienced and knowledgable entrepreneurs, business executives, and venture capitalists.
If you are interested in teaching a class, or would like to make suggestions or give feedback, please email
Andy [at] workattheyard.com
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These days I’m working hard at The Yard to develop an innovative curriculum of continuing education classes including software programming, business development, financing and just about everything in between. We’ll be rolling out courses beginning in September. Stay tuned!
TODAY ONLY: Download and read my book Welcome to the Land of Cannibalistic Horses for FREE! After today it will be for sale, but you can download the PDF and print it for free today. Read interviews with Wesley Willis, David LaChapelle, Bernardine Dohrn, Dan Savage and more… essays on Brooklyn, Phish, Disney and Democracy circa 2004. Photos, comics, illustrations by Mike Force. Also includes a new forward. This year marks the 7th anniversary, help us celebrate by downloading the PDF.