Day: March 7, 2013

Smart Advice from Smart People

The Lefsetz Letter

…those who win will have two qualities. One, they’ll be great. Two, they’ll persevere. Getting Lucky, Lefsetz.com On the surface, the daily Lefsetz Letter that arrives in my inbox doesn’t have much to do with writing. Bob Lefsetz writes about music and the music industry, mailing out his thoughts every weekday, and the tagline, first in music analysis, really says it all. And yet, on busy days at work, it remains one of the few things running through my various feeds that I’ll actually take a time-out to sit and read. The Lefsetz Letter may be about music, but the music industry was one of the first to get utterly freakin’ pantsed by the internet. It spent years standing there, shorts around its ankles, wondering what the hell happened and why people with freakin’ computers came along and changed everything. And this is what Lefsetz writes about, day after day. He’s a smart guy who looked at the industry that changed around him and