I, Compendium

Tomorrow, I will be updating my resume to submit to a job agency that wants to represent me to potential clients.

Today, I

had breakfast with a friend. Among other things, we talked about the past, present, and possible future of technology. We talked about how to make life easier through technological improvements. One invention we would like to see is digitized clay, which can be molded by hand, but also be minutely adjusted using computerized coordinates. Imagine a piece of clay that, if you don't like how you shaped one area, you can undo and it will snap back to its previous shape one step back.

walked around a hobby store and looked at modelmaking material that I can use on occasional projects that require me to build three-dimensional mockups and presentations.

finished creating my niece's birthday video using iMovie on a Mac. I edited footage that I shot, researched music to accompany the movie, edited the movie using techniques that I learned from watching/studying Scorsese, Hitchcock, Spielberg, and Ken Burns movies. In addition to having fun, I use some of these storytelling techniques in developing web site experiences.

read an article in Poets and Writers magazine that talked about how agents are most interested in a writer's voice, that specific style and flow and attitude and timing that shows that a writer has a certain uniqueness, that a writer has established his identity, that he is confident in his direction, and that his voice clearly shows through on every word that he writes.

watched a TV interview with the comedian/actor/writer Steve Martin, who said, "Be so good that they can't ignore you."

When I was younger, I would write my resume to read as if I were as accomplished as my competition, presenting myself to sound like everyone else. I now realize that if I present myself as the EVERYTHING that I am, including my quirks, my geekiness on certain subjects, my honest opinion about what I really want to do in life, and what I am so good at that no one can ignore me, when I present myself this way, I realize that I have no competition, because no other person can be me. No one even comes close.