Archive of posts from June 2022

Daily Post #1665 • June 30 2022 • Craft

How to get great taste

Do you have great taste?

Daily Post #1664 • June 29 2022 • Craft

New direction

Last year, my wife Kezi and I lost someone.

Daily Post #1663 • June 28 2022 • Craft

Dollar cost averaging your vision

A smart investor has rules for their investing.

Daily Post #1662 • June 27 2022 • Craft

Skilled vs talented

I don’t like being called talented.

Daily Post #1661 • June 26 2022 • Craft

The joy of not knowing

When I sit down to write, I usually don’t know what I’ll write about.

Daily Post #1660 • June 25 2022 • Craft

Healthy creative passion

What’s healthy creative passion?

Daily Post #1659 • June 24 2022 • Craft

Paper memories

If you’re a creative in 2022, you probably use a lot of tech.

Daily Post #1658 • June 23 2022 • Resilience

First, peace

Peace and Possibility go together.

Daily Post #1657 • June 22 2022 • Craft

99% wasted

Yesterday we touched on how creative energy is 99% waste, in pursuit of the 1%.

Daily Post #1656 • June 21 2022 • Craft

Creative vs Productive

Creativity and productivity are opposites.

Daily Post #1655 • June 20 2022 • Craft

Too many yesses make a no

Does saying “Yes” more often help us achieve more things?

Daily Post #1654 • June 19 2022 • Craft

Weekend Questions

I like asking hard questions. Especially on weekends.

Daily Post #1653 • June 18 2022 • Craft

Bend time with creative habits

What could you achieve if you could bend time?

Daily Post #1652 • June 17 2022 • Resilience

Old too, not too old

Old too, not too old:

Daily Post #1651 • June 16 2022 • Momentum

Keep building

Keep building.

Daily Post #1650 • June 15 2022 • Craft

How to make sparks fly

Some ideas are great. But without great people working on them, they never become reality as envisioned. The market is full of good ideas with terrible execution.

Daily Post #1649 • June 14 2022 • Craft

Pulled by obsession

Are you pulled forward by your obsession?

Daily Post #1648 • June 13 2022 • Craft

Redefining creative potential

We all have access to information, so little-known tricks and memorisation skills aren’t what define our creative potential.

Daily Post #1647 • June 12 2022 • Craft

Different tools, different thinking

Have you mastered your tools?

Daily Post #1646 • June 11 2022 • Experience

Half as good, half as nice

A mentor once said to me, “If you don’t do it, someone half as good and half as nice will.”

Daily Post #1645 • June 10 2022 • Momentum

How to hit more home-runs at work

Home runs aren’t special because they happen all the time.

Daily Post #1644 • June 09 2022 • Craft

Survivability as a soft skill

Know what’s a hugely underrated soft skill?

Daily Post #1643 • June 08 2022 • Momentum

About that project that takes twice as long

How’s that project you’re working on going?

Daily Post #1642 • June 07 2022 • Craft

Why create that thing?

Why are you creating what you’re creating?

Daily Post #1641 • June 06 2022 • Craft

Where creative overwhelm comes from

Overwhelm hits ambitious creatives.

Daily Post #1640 • June 05 2022 • Momentum

It’s Slowtime

Progress is slow. That’s why we don’t really notice it. It could be progress in a skill we’re developing, but the slowness puts us off. It could be progress toward a bigger guy, but the slowness doesn’t give us a milestone event at which we should choose change.

Daily Post #1639 • June 04 2022 • Experience

What makes a brand a web3 brand?

What makes a brand… a web3 brand?

Daily Post #1638 • June 03 2022 • Craft

Bear markets vs bears

When everything is good and getting better, doing well is par for the course.

Daily Post #1637 • June 02 2022 • Craft

A cool minute longer

How do you make hard things work out for you?

Daily Post #1636 • June 01 2022 • Resilience

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