Business Tips for Creative People

Lots of beautiful noise in the LinnDrum as well....

Drum machine inventor Roger Linn once told me, "A creative mind is a loud mind. It has lots of thoughts popping up in different directions."

For creative people, focusing can be difficult. That's why I was intrigued by Michael W. Dean's recent essay, called simply "Professionalism." It's an outtake from his upcoming O'Reilly book with Alan Lastufka, YouTube: An Insider's Guide to Climbing the Charts.

Michael's head must be loud indeed; he's constantly sending me article ideas, and we've published many of them here. But somehow, he has the ability to achieve as well as conceive, and these straightforward tips explain why.