Publishing & Media Things I Learned Wandering Around Europe: When Something Goes Viral First, 1 quick announcement. The past four days have been a whirlwind experience. I’m still trying to make sense of it, dissect how and why it happened, and process it intellectually. I’ve been trying to document it all in real time over social media. But in case we’re not con Written by Matthew November 19, 2013December 23, 2013
Travel Tales “Let the Boogie-Woogie Come Out!” 10 Lessons from a NYC Pop Up School “Genius is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration.” –Thomas Edison Last week I had the privilege of attending the 99U Pop Up School in New York City. Attending this event accomplished exactly what I imagined it would: the speakers inspired me, the topics reinvigorated me in my pursuits, a Written by Matthew September 27, 2013December 21, 2013
Publishing & Media My Unhealthy Obsession with Self-Publishing (and Choosing Yourself) Everything is out there waiting for you. All you have to do is walk up and declare yourself in. No need for permission. You just need courage to say, “Include me”. Providing you have the energy to pull it off you can do what you like. And the Universal Law, being impartial, will be only Written by Matthew June 24, 2013August 12, 2013
Travel Tales Thoughts on Coming Home (Part 5): The Journey Continues Be patient toward all that is unresolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves… Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer. – Rainer Maria Rilke As I sat down to write Thoughts on Coming Written by Matthew February 17, 2013August 12, 2013
Travel Tales Thoughts on Coming Home (Part 3): These Things Traveling Taught “I soon realized that no journey carries one far unless, as it extends into the world around us, it goes an equal distance into the world within.” – Lillian Smith, American writer This is Part 3 of a 5-part piece called Thoughts on Coming Home. After a long journey like mine, it&# Written by Matthew January 30, 2013August 12, 2013
Travel Tales Are You a Sneaky Old Vegetable Lady? “Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.” – William James, American philosopher and psychologist Every day while in Zadar, Croatia, I’d walk ten minutes from my apartment to an open air market to pick up vegetables for the next few meals. A zucchini. A couple pep Written by Matthew November 22, 2012August 12, 2013
Travel Tales What Makes a Journey Successful? “The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.” – Marcel Proust, French novelist Earlier this week I reviewed a book called Vagabonding: An Uncommon Guide to the Art of Long-Term World Travel. In response to the post, my friend Chris Written by Matthew September 6, 2012June 12, 2013
Travel Tales An Outsider’s Look Inside the World of Hitchhiking “I rarely end up where I was intending to go, but often I end up somewhere I needed to be.” – Douglas Adams, author of The HitchHiker’s Guide to the Galaxy One sunny Friday afternoon in Vilnius, Lithuania, I walked to one of my favorite Coffee Inns in Old Town, ordered a kav Written by Matthew August 30, 2012September 4, 2013
Travel Tales How to Get Lost And Never Find Your Way “Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?” “That depends a good deal on where you want to get to,” said the Cat. “I don’t much care where . . .” said Alice. “Then it doesn’t matter which way you go,” said the Cat. — Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderlan Written by Matthew July 24, 2012August 10, 2013
