Thoughts from a year chasing split ends, random projects and fractured priorities, from IgniteNOLA, Feb 1, 2010.

Below are the slides from a little talk at IgniteNOLA on Feb 1, 2010, about how to stop doing things that don’t matter. In short, follow your passion.

Better in person, I hope…

Links to the items screen-captured in the presentation:

• Slide 2: Social capital isn’t new, but everything about it is.
• Slide 3: A Freemium Life
• Slide 4: Tweet to request help to prep for this presentation
• Slide 5: Making Myself Uncomfortable (A Zombie’s Journey)
• Slide 6: How to Pack for a Nomadic Life (and the 79 things I packed).
• Slide 7: A little known fact: I’m actually a baseball geek.
• Slide 8: 34 Posts on Evolving Business Models in the Photography Industry
• Slide 9: Slide from How to use Twitter to Market your Photography
• Slide 10: John-John music video, by Jeremy Yuricek
• Slide 11: Photo book on Blurb, INDIA, by Taylor Davidson
• Slide 12: A “Personal API” could be a modularized, standardized interface for collaboration.
• Slide 13: Workspaces and Aging, on IDEO blog
• Slide 14: Comments by Taylor Davidson, on Backtype
• Slide 15: The Drive-By Route, Dec 2008 to May 2009
• Slide 16: How to Fail: 25 Secrets Learned through Failure
• Slide 17: How can we “shape serendipity”?
• Slide 18: Slide from How to use Twitter to market your photography
• Slide 19: Slide from Trends in Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital from SXSW 2009
• Slide 20: Slide from Making Yourself Uncomfortable from Tribecon

Also:

• The view from the stage, at the start of my little talk.