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by Jake Mogul on January 4th, 2010
Last week marked the beginning of a new year and a new decade. In the first 24 hours of 2010 the usual torrent of text messages came from virtually everybody in my phone book. One of them referred to the next ten years as “the teenies”, in the same vein as the twenties and thirties.
I want to begin 2010 the same way I begin every year: with a manifesto; a wish list, a list of action items and ambitions, and this year I’m going to post that manifesto on my blog (because now I have a blog. Last year, I did not).
Recent years have required me to do things that were not really me so I want 2010 to be all about reclaiming myself and my life. Getting back in contact with childhood dreams and being true to myself. And as hairy-fairy as some of that sounds, I believe it is true that to be truly happy, you have to be the person that you would be if there was nobody else to judge you for it.
So, here we go, in priority order… Read the rest of this entry »
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by Jake Mogul on October 22nd, 2009
If slash when I eventually have children (I hope it is when rather than if), one of the single most powerful pieces of life information I will teach them is to appreciate the value of books. During my teens, I began reading a lot, largely due to not having the kind of social life I wished I had and not having much else to do with my time. And out of the hundreds of books I have read over the past ten years, there are five I have picked that I think have revolutionized my life and thinking in various ways.
The five books I’ve chosen have been so influencial that I can say with confidence that had I not read them, I would be a different person, and the worse for it. If you enjoy the posts on my blog, I strongly urge you to read these books. And if you’ve read any of these books, I strongly urge you to subscribe to my blog because, well, you’ll enjoy it!
Without further ado, five books that changed my life… Read the rest of this entry »
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by Jake Mogul on August 17th, 2009
Some years ago now I remember reading in a magazine – I think it was Empire or Total Film – about the coming of 3D cinema.
According to said article, it was what a room full of movie moguls in Hollywood had come up with as the answer to the problem of video piracy. The idea was that the 3D technology would add something to the movie going experience, something that would not be reproducible in peoples homes, hence giving them an incentive to go to cinemas and pay to see movies rather than downloading them for free from the Internet.
The question is, “Would it work?” Read the rest of this entry »
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