Weekly Review #136 - Meetup Prestige, Blogging Naked, and Giant Nerf Guns
I gave a talk on growth marketing at my buddy Joshua Fechter's meetup series. Even though I didn't prepare anything and just answered pre-vetted questions from him in casual conversation.
I was blown away by how much prestige that simple act got me - since then I've had 5 different people reach out to 'pick my brain over coffee', and half of them were already my friends! Usually I'm on the other end of that request....stand at a podium and the audience will come, I suppose.
I also went rafting down the Russian River with a few dozen friends in inflatable toys. Lots of fun, lots of sun, not much movement.
Tech
Pepperfilters - The free Snapchat Geofilter Creator
So this is how you make a Snapchat Geofilter. I always wondered - of course now there's a platform for it.
Nobody Wants to Read Your Sh*t - Download | Black Irish Books
The author of the War of Art (a great read on Resistance) is giving away his new book for free for a short while. Haven't read it yet, but the title makes it sound full of truth already!
Lifehacks
"Men outnumber women as speculative fiction authors, except in urban fantasy, paranormal romance and young-adult."
Just like women in tech, is this due to our culture pushing women away from writing fantasty/scifi? Or are elves and spaceships intrinsically more alluring for males? I don't know if you could ever truly answer that question, since we don't have a control group for the world....
27 Unfiltered Facts, Fears, Doubts, & Personal Stories That I Don’t Want You To Know About Me
My good friend Michael Balchan's blog is always vulnerable, but here he devoted an entire post to sharing the hardest things to share. Good on him. Funny how someone else's vulnerabilities aren't even that embarrassing once laid out on paper - so we streak and laugh at farts, so what?
Fun
Quality, short online web games at this site, by some French dude. Very fun.
World's LARGEST NERF GUN!! — www.youtube.com
Dude built a Nerf gun that shoots plungers. Awesome!