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I create a newsletter called GrowthCandy. Each issue shares one idea to help build and spread your work, delivered as a short comic. Fast to read. Easy to apply. Hard to forget!
It can be tricky enough getting small businesses to focus on their target audience at the best of times.
Maximum productivity and efficiency is good, right?
Brands that claim to want to get closer to their audience will, soon, be faced with a choice.
“The mind must be given relaxation - it will rise improved and sharper after a good break. Just as rich fields must not be forced - for they will quickly lose their fertility if never given a break - so constant work on the anvil will fracture the force of mind. But it regains its powers if it is set free and relaxed for a while.” — Seneca, on Tranquility of Mind
We know what ROI (return on investment) is.
We’re talking money.
“If a person gave away your body to some passerby, you’d be furious. Yet you hand over your mind to anyone who comes along, soothed may abuse you, leaving it disturbed and troubled — have you no shame in that?” — Epictetus Enchiridion, 28
Bought a new smartphone or laptop in the last 18 months?
“For this is what makes us evil – that none of us looks back upon our own lives.” – Seneca, Moral Letters, 83.2
“From Rusticus… I learned to read carefully and not be satisfied with a rough understanding of the whole, and not to agree too quickly with those who have a lot to say about something.” — Marcus Auraleus, Meditations, 1.7.3
Twitter is ablaze with anxiety from people who have missed an opportunity.
Designers take issue with clients that don’t make good design decisions. Of course they don’t — that’s why you’re there.
Sales costs are the tax we pay for one of two things:
Most NFT projects will fail. You haven’t heard of most of them. You couldn’t track every single one of them even if you wanted to.
Do you feel others in your industry are better than you?
What do you think about the metaverse? How about web3?
Some brands strike it lucky with right place, right time.
You know that idea you’re scared to talk about because it’s really weird?
My wife had an operation recently.
There’s not enough time to do everything we want.… and yet there’d enough time to do anything we want.
I spoke with a founder today who was having a hard time with some of their key stakeholders.
If the font on your website doesn’t match the one on the box you ship,
I’ve met founders who are desperate to get into execution.
Ever wished you started a business or a project sooner?
Ever noticed how you get most what you give most?
If you’ve ever upgraded a computer or a phone…
A journey of a hundred miles starts with…
I find that I tend to like some parts of projects much more than others.
How do you change the world?
I create a newsletter called GrowthCandy. Each issue shares one idea to help build and spread your work, delivered as a short comic. Fast to read. Easy to apply. Hard to forget!