{"id":14545,"date":"2021-03-20T09:23:00","date_gmt":"2021-03-20T13:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/hameblog\/2021\/03\/20\/lost-in-my-generation\/"},"modified":"2025-09-12T07:50:59","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T10:50:59","slug":"lost-in-my-generation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/2021\/03\/20\/lost-in-my-generation\/","title":{"rendered":"Lost in My Generation"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I didn’t have any references at the cafe, so these are imaginary likenesses of Callaghan, Hemingway, and Fitzgerald.<\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n

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Strategic Coach has a best-selling book right now called Who Not How<\/strong><\/a><\/em>, which says that if you want to grow beyond a certain point, the question to ask is not how<\/em> you’re going to do it, but who<\/em> can provide the capabilities you’re missing.<\/p>\n

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I’m sure that’s totally appropriate here, too, but I don’t know who the who is, what exactly I’d be asking them to do, or what’s in it for them. An agent? Fans? How does one connect with these people? I have no skill at that.<\/p>\n

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Of course, I’m just talking about my personal work here. Thousands of people see my work-work in the Coach’s books every quarter, and I discovered when searching for the link above that the book’s website features a giveaway which includes one of our quarterly books containing my illustrations, so that’s potentially thousands more people seeing my work there. It’s all pretty mind-blowing.<\/p>\n

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And my boss\/my partner on these books, Dan Sullivan<\/a> has certainly been an amazing “who” — taking something I did for fun and for free and turning it into something I could do for a living. “You mean we just have big conversations about big ideas, you tell me what you’re picturing, and I draw that? For a job? Okay!” Plus he started off this project by asking me if I was interested in drawing 100 books over the next 25 years. I laughed and said, “Sure,” ‘cuz it sounded so made-up, but here we are, 26 books in already!<\/p>\n

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But, you know, the art thing<\/em>. We’re always comparing, always wondering if there’s more.<\/p>\n

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Oh yeah, another thing about That Summer in Paris<\/em>: Imagine just getting to hang out on a terrace in Paris? Having your friends and cultural heroes all walk past, and maybe even stop to join you at your table? And you just talk into the night.<\/p>\n

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Meanwhile, you’re also somehow completing ground-breaking novels and stories and essays.<\/p>\n

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Both Callaghan and Hemingway elide the bits where they do the work<\/em>, scribbling or typing at a desk for hours and hours and hours. Plus they have Max Perkins writing them letters and calling them up: “Please write something for me to publish!”<\/p>\n

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Imagine.<\/p>\n

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In other news, happy birthday Dad. I was thinking of you on Thursday. I don’t suppose you look at the internet any more now than you did when you were alive.<\/p>\n

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