Archive of posts from April 2022

Daily Post #1604 • April 30 2022 • Craft

Good, Boring Days

Didn’t feel like you created much today?

Daily Post #1603 • April 29 2022 • Craft

The life-giving power of actually enjoying your work

“If you can get your work life to where you enjoy half of it, that is amazing. Very few people ever achieve that.” - Jeff Bezos

Daily Post #1602 • April 28 2022 • Craft

Use the canvas

We don’t have to like new technological innovations.

Daily Post #1601 • April 27 2022 • Momentum

More hides inside less

Which represents ‘more’, to you:

Daily Post #1600 • April 26 2022 • Craft

The joy of uncertain success

Part of the wonder of life is found in its uncertainty. Life, when assured, is deemed boring among many in pursuit of living.

Daily Post #1599 • April 25 2022 • Experience

Clarity vs Personality

What’s the most important part of your product description?

Daily Post #1598 • April 24 2022 • Momentum

If quiet, probably building

Sometimes, we get to build and share what we’re building at the same time.

Daily Post #1597 • April 23 2022 • Craft

The blessing and the curse

We get to choose the blessing or the curse:

Daily Post #1596 • April 22 2022 • Experience

How to see around corners

Love SaaS?

Daily Post #1595 • April 21 2022 • Narrative

Special vs Extra

What makes something special?

Daily Post #1594 • April 20 2022 • Experience

Ask!

Want people to support your venture? Ask.

Daily Post #1593 • April 19 2022 • Craft

Your Work vs The Bubble

What happens to your work when the bubble bursts?

Daily Post #1592 • April 18 2022 • Craft

Show us what you’re not

Most company websites say “We are __”.

Daily Post #1591 • April 17 2022 • Narrative

The best?

Being the best is exhausting.

Daily Post #1590 • April 16 2022 • Craft

Being a creator is lonely sometimes

I love making things.

Daily Post #1589 • April 15 2022 • Craft

On loving and hating simplicity

We love and hate simplicity.

Daily Post #1588 • April 14 2022 • Experience

There is always a market for ‘great’

The market is only as competitive as we choose.

Daily Post #1587 • April 13 2022 • Momentum

The Dying Art Of Clarity

Clarity isn’t popular. It requires most things to get out of the way, so that only the most important things take centre-stage. It requires the obvious to be obvious, the main thing to be the main thing.

Daily Post #1586 • April 12 2022 • Narrative

What’s your big opinion?

Never mind your “big idea”…

Daily Post #1585 • April 11 2022 • Craft

Know your Intersection

Your intersection is your superpower.

Daily Post #1584 • April 10 2022 • Craft

You have no users

What do subscription services and heroine have in common?

Daily Post #1583 • April 09 2022 • Craft

Why slow communication is faster

Real-time, all-the-time.

Daily Post #1582 • April 08 2022 • Momentum

Faster is also slower

When companies want to move faster, what do they do?
They hire more people.

Daily Post #1581 • April 07 2022 • Experience

Your work won’t last forever

Your work won’t last forever.

Daily Post #1580 • April 06 2022 • Experience

No means Yes

‘Yes’ means opening doors that were closed.
‘Yes’ lets us open as many doors as we like.
‘Yes’ can also lead to over-committing.
‘Yes’ stacks up many things we can’t give our full attention to.
‘Yes’ can become ‘No’ to doing great things.

Daily Post #1579 • April 05 2022 • Craft

Make you better, not just richer

The best projects make us Better.

Daily Post #1578 • April 04 2022 • Experience

Be genuinely useful, not just novel

Being useful is underrated.

Daily Post #1577 • April 03 2022 • Momentum

Invisible Focus

“Available”.

Daily Post #1576 • April 02 2022 • Momentum

Choose your own growth

Seinfeld killed the most popular show on TV.

Daily Post #1575 • April 01 2022 • Craft

It wasn’t right or wrong

You make a call.

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