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+title: 'BlogTalk Reloaded 1.5'
+date: '2006-10-02T06:42:01-04:00'
+permalink: /blogtalk-reloaded-15/
+tags:
+    - conferences
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+
+Keynote 2: Matt Mullenweg, “WordPress and Jazz”
+
+(tags: [blogtalkreloaded](http://technorati.com/tag/blogtalkreloaded))
+
+“Originality’s the thing. You can have tone and technique…” –Lester Young  
+  
+— originality’s important, sure, but much of what we do is building on other people’s work
+
+‘find the best teachers…’ –Wynton Marsalis  
+  
+— you have to start somewhere; researching what comes before us is important  
+  
+— blogging as development of content management (and diaries and pamphleteering…)
+
+‘knowing the lyrics of a tune… ‘ –Dexter Gordon  
+  
+— too often we’re just going through the motions, not thinking about what we’re doing
+
+“Anyone can make the simple complicated. Creativity is making the complicated simple.” –Charles Mingus  
+  
+— every project needs a tag line — no more than ten words. better to have half a project than a half-assed project. wordpress is about writing on the web. keep it simple. put it on a post-it note
+
+“It’s taken me all my life to figure out what not to play.” –Dizzy Gillespie  
+  
+— keep the software focused; you can put more features in, but you can’t take them out
+
+“If I don’t practice for a day, I know it…” –Louis Armstrong  
+  
+— need to have something you’re so passionate about you’ll work on it every day
+
+“A goal is a dream with a finish line.” –Duke Ellington  
+  
+— write your goals down!
+
+“It doesn’t matter whether you’re playing a flatted fifth or a ruptured 129th, if they can’t dance to it” –Dizzy Gillespie  
+  
+— what we’re making is a tool; make it and get out of the way
+
+“I say, play your own way. Don’t play what the public wants…” –Thelonious Monk  
+  
+— believe in your vision! either the public will come around, or you’re wrong. and if you’re wrong, the best thing to do is to fail fast and move on
+
+“You know why I quit playing ballads? Because I love playing ballads” –Miles Davis  
+  
+— get outside your comfort zone
+
+“If you don’t make mistakes, you aren’t really trying” –Coleman Hawkins  
+  
+— fail fast: it’s cheaper than ever; launch early and often
+
+“There’s no such thing as a wrong note” –Art Tatum  
+  
+— improvisation is key
+
+(I agree with Jill’s [assessment](http://jilltxt.net/?p=1765): all aphorisms, all the time.)
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