10 Ideas For The Interested This Week
“Genius can come from anywhere.”
Each week I share 10 ideas with my For The Interested newsletter subscribers. Following is this week’s newsletter — sign up here to get future issues.
“Genius can come from anywhere.” — Jimmy Iovine
In 1975, before Jimmy Iovine became one of the most successful people in the history of the music business, he was just a young engineer about to quit a gig.
He was a nobody, working with an unknown artist who spent three weeks searching for a single drum sound for a song, and he was over it.
So he decided to quit.
But the album’s producer pulled Jimmy aside and gave him a piece of advice:
“Stay in the fucking saddle.”
Iovine listened.
The artist was Bruce Springsteen and the song turned out to be Born To Run. The rest is still-developing history.
It’s a cool story (from the excellent documentary The Defiant Ones) and an important lesson.
Don’t end your ride because it’s bumpy.
Now, on to this week’s ideas…
