The next morning I woke up, stared into a blank screen and wrote another story. The morning after I did the same.

This went on for a 146 consecutive days, at the end of which I had written Nanotales, my first book - http://www.nanotales.net

I never intended to write a book. I always found it incredibly hard to focus on anything for more than a few minutes at a time and I knew, from reading about the art of writing, that books aren’t written during coffee breaks. Most authors wake up in the morning and go to work. They write for 8 or 9 hours and then they go home.

And so once the book was written, I had no intentions of publishing it and never got around to looking for an agent.

About a year later, I met up with a director friend of mine for coffee. I told him about a few eBooks I had just finished (one on innovation, the other on future trends) and he asked whether it was cool to send these to a publisher he knew.

Next thing I know, I get a call from the publisher...

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Aaron Patzer was in Atomic’s media studio yesterday working on an upcoming podcast series – stand by for that. Aaron is founder and CEO of Mint (www.mint.com) the fresh new place to manage your money online and winner of best presenting company at TechCrunch40 2007 and Finovate 2007. We learned some interesting things between segments. For one thing, Aaron was at Princeton with author, blogger and affiliate marketing whiz Tim Ferris (www.fourhourworkweek.com) who somewhat hilariously applied controlled super de- and re-hydration techniques in his successful bid to win the Chinese National Kickboxing Championship. On an oddly related note, Aaron won his weight division in a local Evanston, Illinois bodybuilding competition when he was 17, then immediately retired from the sport. Dehydration plays a part there too, but for a different reason.

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"The story of why the music industry is dying at record speed is old news. by now if you still believe that the music industry is still just trying to "recover" you are most likely more pathetic then the industry itself. The old men in the stogy walled gardens let the place catch on fire. Yes Rome is burning and it ain't coming back. So if The music industry is a poster child on how not to move w/ the times, adopt new technology and be able to reinvent itself why is it a grand time for music?

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Invented by a Hungarian professor in 1974, the Rubik’s Cube quickly skyrocketed to international popularity, then languished out of the public eye for many years. Recently, the cube has been making a comeback. With the Canadian Speed Cubing Championships coming up this Saturday in the run up to the World Championships this fall in Budapest, we asked Bram Cohen to give us a glimpse into Cuber Culture.

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