No Holds Barred

(last Friday, via instant messenger)
Andrea: do you know what you want at all? i mean aside from ‘easy, quick and lots of money?’
Andy: the gabrillion dollar question
Andrea: mmhmm
Andy: I’d love to be abel to use all this tech for social change. yadda
Andrea: you know. there is something there. totally. i’d suggest maybe at least one hour of dreaming in that direction 😉
Andy: yeah. big-ass goal: develop 3 million member ezine + podcast + blog and then run for senate 🙂 – Andy and Ron in the White House by 2030
Andrea: 🙂
Andy: Gotta get back to my ‘creative instigator’ stance
Andrea: you know what i mean when i say you MUST have somethin to say.
Andrea: here’s a wild thought. what if. what would happen if. your personal blog and your professional blog. had sex and had a baby. 😉
Andy: I know – I know – I know – I know
Andrea: okay
Andy: it is inevitable isn’t it. it is my destiny
Andrea: i think it is.
Andy: hee hee
(the next day)
Andy: You’ve been ricocheting in my head all day 😉 I worry about turning off my audience by moving into more advocacy type stuff and being truly politically honest.
Andrea: yep
Andy: BUT at the same time my entire brand is instant global selfexpression and being super-creative about it

Andrea: yep
Andy: and everybody always says they like how I tell it like it is
Andrea: yeah. i think the question is: how can it be done where the act of self expressing is honored versus getting all tangled in the ‘content’ of that expression – or rather – both happen. ‘oh, andy stands for that opinion, i disagree’ AND
Andrea: ‘oh, andy stands for everyone’s opinion, that i agree with.’
Andy: AND Andy can show me how I can get my opinion out there
Andrea: yes
Andy: hmm… a conundrum. as always – everything seems to collapse into a simpler shape
Andrea: i was JUST thinking that same exact thing. everything collapses into a core of integrity
Andy: yes. I have to stop hiding to be polite. Or stop separating.
Andrea: the other thing is – take it all the way right? so…hypothetically you go for it and piss people off. who would you piss off and how badly and is that a-okay with you?
Andy: right – but I think I have to trust that peopel will see the underlying hope/heart under my stuff that my friends/colleauges see
Andrea: i truly believe that won’t be an issue
Andy: plus I can reconsider my marketing strategies into this context too and I’m guessing they totally fit
Andrea: i see it too. i see more traffic. more referrals. more viral. more sales. ‘finally, we get all of andy’ okay well not ALL of andy but you know. you can do a ‘andy’s secret’ ‘ive been holding back on you’
Andy: okay I’m gonna sleep on this. let it tumble aroudn
Andrea: yep
Andy: thnx again my dear .good night!
Andrea: 🙂
Andrea: night!