Austin Kleon says that sharing something small everyday is more important than showing the "big stuff" once in a blue moon.

In chapter 3 of his book, "Show Your Work", Kleon shows how putting some small piece of work out daily keeps you as a creator on other people's radar. Basically, people are busy and they forget you and me exist. Kind of. (Not really. But mostly.) So we remind them.

I'm starting to think the answer is yes.

APE (Author, Publisher, Entrepreneur) has really surprised me, even just two chapters in. I did the terrible thing of judging it by its cover, and was doubtful that this book could really be that interesting. I'll admit, I was wrong.

Thompson speaks about writing for a public audience as it relates to, for the most part, school. For some reason the only thing that this reminds me of is guided meditations in high school. I went to an all-girls catholic high school where religion classes were mandatory, but also plagued with guided meditations. All this entailed was us laying on the ground and closing our eyes while a nun played some recording of waves and told us about how Jesus walked up to us on a beach. We were instructed to have a conversation with Jesus. If we fell asleep during the process it was okay because it was "what Jesus wanted." This is not fictional; this is my life.

The Atlas team spent last week and this week trying to get back in the swing of things after Spring Break. Since the semester is quickly coming to an end, we are trying to kick things into high gear and really make some progress on this project.

One large announcement: the Atlas team will no longer be using Atlas (ironic, I know). Unfortunately, O'Reilly Media has decided to discontinue Atlas in a few short months, and this has affected our access to the site. Instead of spending time trying to learn an application that will soon cease to exist, we're re-directing our efforts.

I love this book. Thompson is constantly taking the stereotypes about our generation and turning them upside down. People aren’t usually kind to our generation when it comes to our use of technology, but Thompson is giving us a break and showing us that all our tweeting and texting might not be the worst thing to happen to the world.