12 Observations From The Business Trenches For Getting Things Done
I just finished reading Rework by Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hanson and enjoyed it. Here are a dozen of my favourite quotes from the book.
Entries by Barry Linetsky
Three New Perspectives on the Walt Disney Studio Strike of 1941
Those who have studied the history of Walt Disney Studios know that the period of the early 1940s was a trying and difficult time for Walt Disney, employees, investors, and bankers. While Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs was a sensational box-office hit for the company in 1937 and 1938, the follow-up full-length features Pinocchio and Fantasia […]
H.P. Lovecraft and The Case of Charles Dexter Ward
Toward the end of my teenage years, in the late 1970s, I was curious about the writings of a fantasy/horror writer by the unusual name of H.P. Lovecraft. Howard Phillips Lovecraft’s Weird Tales magazine writings and his Cthulhu mythos were relatively unknown in popular culture until much later when he became more widely recognized as a […]
The Logic of Human Action as a Foundation for Entrepreneurial Discovery
In a recent episode of The Human Action Podcast by the Auburn. LA.-based Mises Institute, Dr. Joe Salerno is interviewed by host Jeff Deist about the proper methodology of economic science as put forth by such economics luminaries as Carl Menger and Ludwig von Mises. The reason the topic of valid methodology in economics and […]
How I Organized the Writing of The Business of Walt Disney and the Nine Principles of His Success | Part 12: Two Observations by a TBWD Reader
[Other posts in this series can be found here.] This series of blog posts was inspired by a question from a reader inquiring how I went about organizing so much information contained in The Business of Walt Disney and the Nine Principles of His Success so that it was “all at your fingertips when you do […]
How I Organized the Writing of The Business of Walt Disney and the Nine Principles of His Success | Part 11: Expanding College of Disney Knowledge: Four Important Sources for Walt Disney Historians
[Other posts in this series can be found here.] Writing a business biography about Walt Disney was a time-consuming and challenging project. The thing I wanted to most avoid was to have a recognized Disney expert read The Business of Walt Disney and the Nine Principles of His Success and write a review that concluded the […]
How I Organized the Writing of The Business of Walt Disney and the Nine Principles of His Success | Part 10: Writing About The Nine Principles of Walt Disney’s Success
[Other posts in this series can be found here.] While the first part of The Business of Walt Disney and the Nine Principles of His Success is research-based and tells the business story of Walt Disney, the second part applies what is presented in Part 1 and pertains to the identification and justification of the identified […]
How I Organized the Writing of The Business of Walt Disney and the Nine Principles of His Success | Part 9: Writing The Third Draft (2nd Rewrite)
[Other posts in this series can be found here.] By the time the first rewrite (second draft) was complete, the first half of The Business of Walt Disney and the Nine Principles of His Success was in pretty good shape. The major research was complete and the content of the story was in place. There […]
How I Organized the Writing of The Business of Walt Disney and the Nine Principles of His Success | Part 8: Overcoming Event Isolation in Historical Writing
[Other posts in this series can be found here.] When biographies of Walt Disney are written by isolating each major event along the chronology, the reader doesn’t get the feel for the totality and multi-dimensionality of pressures and responsibilities that rested on the shoulders of Walt and Roy as leaders of the business. The events […]
How I Organized the Writing of The Business of Walt Disney and the Nine Principles of His Success | Part 7: The Importance of Chronological Continuity in Historical Writing
[Other posts in this series can be found here.] A considerable amount of time on the first and second rewrite of The Business of Walt Disney and the Nine Principles of His Success (TBWD) was taken up by the problem of continuity. There is so much raw information about Walt Disney and events at the Studio […]
How I Organized the Writing of The Business of Walt Disney and the Nine Principles of His Success | Part 6: Verifying Historical Facts Through Research and Reason
[Other posts in this series can be found here.] One of the things I dreaded the most in researching and writing The Business of Walt Disney and the Nine Principles of His Success (Theme Park Press, 2017) was to find two factually different versions of the same event or a fact from a credible source that […]
How I Organized the Writing of The Business of Walt Disney and the Nine Principles of His Success | Part 5: Writing The Second Draft
[Other posts in this series can be found here.] My completed first draft of TBWD consisted of a single MSWord document, broken up into chapters and sections based on the various topics covered. Material consisting of my notes and author quotes were contained in relevant sections. It was now time to start over again from […]