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Congressman Bobby Rush dons a hoodie in support of Treyvon Martin, violating House dress code.Â

I had to reblog this, this is what I call a boss.

“I’ve been complaining about a good friend to my colleagues recently, and I need to stop. This is someone who’s been like a brother to me. When my pockets were empty, he stepped in to help me out. Recently he’s done some small things that bother me. And I’ve somehow allowed those small things to blind me from all the big things that he’s done in the past.”

(Karachi, Pakistan)

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Salute to the Gray, Black and Beautiful!

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It’s not the note you play that’s the wrong note – it’s the note you play afterwards that makes it right or wrong.

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HOOD

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Today it is easy to learn about starting a business. You can get practical advice and to-do lists at the click of a button. However, what you can’t get from others is the understanding about why you are doing what you are doing and toward what end. If only I had heard this story earlier, I would have made fewer — or perhaps different — mistakes.

Gone Fishing | Om Malik (via bijan)

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Fairytales and Unicorns.

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Making blackout poems on Periscope

This is like a lot of my blackout poems, with one difference: it was made live, with the help of an audience using Twitter’s new livestreaming app, Periscope. (Here’s another one, and here’s something I wrote about how my friend Wendy is using the app.)

My rig if anybody’s interested

old gooseneck desktop mic stand

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First we selected a section from today’s paper:

Then I selected an article and a window of text, and people messaged me snippets of text to circle:

Then we found a little story that read “later, after successfully defending her robot”:

But then, because I’m sort of a control freak, I saw the text “what it’s like” and decided to connect it to the word robot, and came up with a new sequence:

Until finally, it turned into this:

It was pretty fun, but it took a whopping 28 minutes. (If you have the Periscope app, you can watch it all here for the next 23 hours or so.)

Or, I shortened it to a 15 second timelapse:

A video posted by Austin Kleon (@austinkleon) on Apr 2, 2015 at 2:03pm PDT

I’ll probably make another one tomorrow afternoon, so follow me on Twitter to get notified when it’s time to join in: @austinkleon

And if you have any ideas of fun stuff to do on Periscope, let me know! Maybe we’ll do office hours on there?

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That sounds like a great use of Periscope. Bravo!

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Refresh. My notes I check in on every day.

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Rick Rubin, Grizzly Bear, and other musicians use Genius to discuss their process

This is really cool: Rick Rubin, Grizzly Bear, and other musicians are using the annotation website Genius to discuss their process. (Above: Rubin on “You Don’t Know How It Feels.”)

There are a bunch of categories on Genius other than music — dig, for example, this page on T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land.

I just set up an account — follow me if you’re on there! @austinkleon

Filed under: show your work

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Awesome stuff!

#Music #rick rubin #RapGenius #ben horowitz

I have known about this guy for a while but I was never 100% sure how to share his art. I told all of my friends about him and many downloaded his mixtape but I also wanted to share him with people online. My blog always seemed like the wrong place but I hope you can appreciate what he is doing.

In this video Raury is hosting his “Anti-tour”. I love the idea. For a kid right out of high school (maybe still in high school at the point of this video) this is great marketing and something you should be thinking about for your business.

When you first start your company you will typically not receive attention or partnerships you want. In Raury’s case those partnerships are joint shows in your case they may be partner events or trade shows but as Raury shows that shouldn't matter.

If you understand your target audience is someplace you should target them. How can you grab the attention from people selling to your target audience? That is the key to your success. Just because they don’t know about you now doesn’t mean they shouldn't know about yo forever.

Below are a few idea you can run with:

1. Use an already large platform to get some of their audience on to your platform (AirBnB did this with Craigslist and most recently Meerkat did this with Twitter)

2. If you are a blogger, guest blogging is huge! This is a permission based growth mechanism and I am looking for way that don’t require permission so if you can think of any advice for blogger please let me know.

3. Instead of attending the event do something out side of the event like Raury did. If you are in the tech industry but because you are a bootstrapped startup or a frugal business. What can you do outside of the doors that the attendees would like? Remember it doesn't need to be an approved idea it just needs to be worth the risk!

Get out there and take some pointer from this young man. His hard work has paid off and now you can find him at BUKU 2015 in New Orleans on March 13 and 14; at SXSW in Austin, Texas from March 17 to 20 and rock Dada in Dallas March 21 and U Street Music Hall in Washington D.C. April 3.