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Notes Stephens: “FlightCaster, a little four-person startup, trolls through dozens of gigabytes of data a day to predict if your flight is going to be late. Not that long ago, information on that scale was only generated by really big businesses, because only they had the ability to generate it.” I know what you’re thinking: Isn’t that supposed to be a goodthing? For FlightCaster, yes, but not for the enterprises like Sabre Travel — the modern culmination of American Airlines’ multi-billion-dollar Sabre network — that depend on the information services that FlightCaster’s iPhone app just outmoded. The problem with “disruptive technologies,” to borrow a phrase from Microsoft chief software architect Ray Ozzie, is that they’re so damn disruptive.

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8. Keep your day job.

The creative person basically has two kinds of jobs: One is the sexy, creative kind. Second is the kind that pays the bills. Sometimes the task at hand covers both bases, but not often.

It’s balancing the need to make a good living while still maintaining one’s creative sovereignty.

The young writer who has to wait tables to pay the bills, in spite of her writing appearing in all the cool and hip magazines... who dreams of one day not having her life divided so harshly. Well, over time the “harshly” bit might go away, but not the “divided.” This tense duality will always play center stage. It will never be transcended. And nobody is immune. Not the struggling waiter, nor the movie star. As soon as you accept this, I mean really accept this, for some reason your career starts moving ahead faster.

9. Companies that squelch creativity can no longer compete with companies that champion creativity.