At that same trip we also met Timothy Ferriss.
Yeah, 4 hour workweek Ferriss. He gave a presentation right after me in which he explained his idea about “more currencies than money”. What it comes down to is that if you want to do big mountain skiing in the Andes then you shouldn’t spend your life in a cubicle saving money to go big mountain skiing in the Andes one day.

You should just go.

Don’t take the detour to achieving your dreams. I was sitting there, in my swimming trunks, looking out over the warm blue Greek ocean and I ‘got’ it. I wasn’t doing boring work to go be able to afford a vacation to Greece; I was working in Greece, and it felt like a vacation!

Fast forward to 2009 and Huub van Zwieten. Huub wrote a book on how to quit your job. He isn’t saying that you shouldn’t work. He is saying that there are some people who are so passionate about the work they do that they don’t even consider it a job. I’m in that book too and one quote that he highlighted is “There are more currencies than money”.

Yeah, the quote I stole learned from Timothy. The reason I’m in the book, according to Huub: “Boris inspires in combining personal and professional life, with extraordinary results and a lot of fun”.

Now Huub is organizing an event, in the Netherlands, which I’m going to attend. On Novemeber 20 where you can experience the same adventure that Marijn (who the book is about) experiences. Would be cool to see you all there:

http://talentfirst.nl/werkeninovervloed/

See all his work or just this movie about his little white marble boat:

Their first (or one of the first) public appearances.

When I was 15 I found an audio tape with a bunch of weird songs. One of them was this song by Tom Waits. It was unlike any other song I had ever heard. I was so impressed by his imagination to come up with the idea of the concept of a drunk piano.

“the average person (and, thereby, common sense) is right almost all the time.  it correctly predicts that most new products will be failures, because most new products ARE failures.  What it can never predict, in fact is 100% wrong about every time, is a GOOD new idea.  It will always miss those.”

‘Passive Aggressive Anger Release Machine’ is an interactive sculpture by Yarisal and Kublitz.

“Experience the most satisfying feeling when a piece of China breaks into million pieces . All you have to do is insert a coin, and a piece of China will Slowly move forwards and fall into the bottom of the machine, breaking, and leaving you happy and relieved of anger.”

Visit their website and click the images. Some are movies and each one is cute, inspiring or even just plain funny.

Automatic is a video and drawing project by William Lamson.