This week John T Unger invited me on his podcast Art Heroes Radio, a place where John tries to help artists and entrepreneurs become “heroes on their own terms.”
I dig that.
Anyway, here’s the page for our conversation:
The competitive advantage of hiring artists, A conversation with Chris Ashworth
Despite the specificity of the title, we hit a [...]
Wendell Berry speaking at a college commencement in 1989. Submitted without comment.
Beware the justice of Nature.
Understand that there can be no successful human economy apart from Nature or in defiance of Nature.
Understand that no amount of education can overcome the innate limits of human intelligence and responsibility. We are not smart enough or conscious enough [...]
I’m sure I’ll keep poking and prodding it for a while, but I’m trying out a new look for the blog starting today.
And yes, if you’re viewing this in anything approaching a decent browser, those are real, non-standard fonts. Hallelujah!
EDITED on March 28th to add: And if by “poking and prodding” you mean, “redo everything [...]
Or: “Holy Frijoles. Five years?”
Or: “So THAT just happened.”
Or: “In a few hours the circle closes and I am going to yell about it from my little rooftop because although it ain’t really all that huge — wow it sure feels huge to me.”
Warning: personal story ahead. And yeah, it’s kind of long. [...]
Brian Howard.
Some folks affect you disproportionately. Brian has been one of those. I’m not sure exactly how to describe it. It’s probably silly for me to pull the word “hero” into the description, but I’m not sure I can really avoid the word either. Little things can confer that status on [...]