I started this blog and within days on the list of podcasts that I had downloaded, and attempting to listen in chronological order so that I don’t miss any and they stay relevant, upcomes (is that a word? Off course, it’s a word. I just used it. That’s how words are made, someone uses it then other people use it) a podcast of James Altucher interviewing Matt Mullenweg.
If you don’t know who Matt Mullenweg is then you are likely not an IT geek. Or don’t work in Silicon Valley. Or don’t run a blog. Or, if you do, then you don’t pay attention. Or you don’t use WordPress, the blog software that runs 25% of the internet, including this one.
In 2003, Matt started WordPress when he was 19 years old. Now WordPress.com gets more traffic than Amazon.com. He is unlucky in cards, according to his website with the coolest URL, http://ma.tt
Ma.tt has already provided some interesting insights into life, business and happiness. He subscribes to an open source lifestyle. Open Source is an philosophy by software programmers that basically means that code is not proprietary, can be developed and evolves to benefit the whole community. It’s online Socialism, free love and ‘mi casa, su casa’ for geeks.
My favourite quote so far is likely not original to Ma.tt but worthwhile, and he repeats derivatives of it repeatedly…
The future is here, it’s just not distributed evenly
It suggests that others are already doing what we all will bee doing, soon enough.
This relates to one of my favourite quotes by legendary humourist and ‘average’ author, Mark Twain
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.
I started this blog, partially, to share some of those peripheral ideas that I think will come to be accepted as ‘best practice’, but also to draw from the past to implement what has been proven or philosophised (another word I may have just made up; the spellcheck doesn’t like it) to be The Way.
Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can’t see from the center. Big, undreamed of-things – the people on the edge see them first
– Kurt Vonnegut
If you want to listen to the podcast you can do so by clicking here.
[Hi, this is future Scott] or you can read a post I wrote about what I learnt from it.
- Listen to The James Altucher on iTunes.
- Download as an MP3 by right-clicking here and choosing “save as.”
Scott
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