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My new book Screw Work Let’s Play (How to do what you love & get paid for it) is a best-seller!
Download a free chapter plus a whole toolkit of guides and audio classes to help you get paid to do what you love at screwworkletsplay.com.
I’m blogging more regularly there so will only very occasionally update CreativeMaverick.com. [...]

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Diary of an Early Adopter

In: Gadgets & the web, Stories

In 2006 I started my first blog, technologyturkey.com, about the irritations of modern technology. Despite being a gadget lover, I also get very irritated at some of the terrible devices made by technology creators - from TVs that crash to mobile phones that can’t make calls. I vented my frustrations about a handful of these devices [...]

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What would have happened if a young Paul McCartney had stayed in his job as a factory coil-winder back in 1961? He almost did:
I started working at a coil-winding factory called Massey and Coggins. My dad had told me to go out and get a job. I’d said, ‘I’ve got a job, I’m in a band.’ [...]

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Back in 2005, Alex Tew was a 21 year old student from Cricklade in Wiltshire and was about to begin a three-year Business Management course at the University of Nottingham. Alex was concerned that he would be left with a student loan that would take years to repay so he brainstormed ways to make some [...]

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Life is supposed to slow down when your life is in threat. And yet it didn’t when I found myself on a motorbike in a Tennessee forest, pulling a wheelie, heading for a tree. One moment I was riding along a forest path, the next I was on the floor with a bike by my [...]

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about this blog

This is the personal blog of John Williams, author of "Screw work, let's play: How to do what you love & get paid for it" to be published by Pearson in June 2010.

Join my mission to play all day and get paid - to do whatever creative, fun stuff we feel like doing and make a good living out of it.


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