Archive of posts from August 2022

Daily Post #1727 • August 31 2022 • Experience

A You-Sized Hole

Do you need a market opportunity?

Daily Post #1726 • August 30 2022 • Craft

Make things you love

Scared of failing?

Daily Post #1725 • August 29 2022 • Craft

Edges or Horizons

If you normally win, it could be because you’re stuck playing Level 1 because Level 2 feels scary. It could be time for Level 2.

Daily Post #1724 • August 28 2022 • Momentum

Things can be something else

Some things are really upsetting.

Daily Post #1723 • August 27 2022 • Resilience

New Hard is Better

Old hard: It used to be very hard to get a book published. If you were lucky enough to be picked up, you’d probably see lots of sales. If you weren’t lucky, you just wouldn’t get published.

Daily Post #1722 • August 26 2022 • Craft

Shipping in a down market

The markets are down.

Daily Post #1721 • August 25 2022 • Craft

Variable Speed Limit

There are three speeds of creative work:

Daily Post #1720 • August 24 2022 • Momentum

When your plan doesn’t go to plan

What do you do when your plan doesn’t go to plan?

Daily Post #1719 • August 23 2022 • Experience

Social Media Stoic

What does Stoicism and Social Media have in common?

Daily Post #1718 • August 22 2022 • Experience

Your timing, your state

That project you’re working on that stresses you out?

Daily Post #1717 • August 21 2022 • Craft

Failure and Success, Defined

Failure means learning something new.

Daily Post #1716 • August 20 2022 • Resilience

The problem with hard problems

Solving hard problems is seen as a good thing.

Daily Post #1715 • August 19 2022 • Momentum

More than your bit

Many folks do less than their bit.

Daily Post #1714 • August 18 2022 • Resilience

Hit the slopes and remember the ski lift

Ever been skiing or snowboarding?

Daily Post #1713 • August 17 2022 • Craft

Eighteen summers

We need to measure “doing work that matters” by a higher standard.

Daily Post #1712 • August 16 2022 • Resilience

On grinding for allowlists

Here’s one for those wrapped up in the web3 energy at the moment. A call to calm, if you will.

Daily Post #1711 • August 15 2022 • Craft

Create like a ghost

Do you create like a ghost?

Daily Post #1710 • August 14 2022 • Craft

On paying money for things

‘Free’ can be deceptive:

Daily Post #1709 • August 13 2022 • Resilience

The good thing about hard days

On great days, it’s easy to be precisely as you wish to be.

Daily Post #1708 • August 12 2022 • Momentum

Efficient or effective?

Which is more important: efficiency or effectiveness?

Daily Post #1707 • August 11 2022 • Craft

On not being let down by others

If you work within a team, or lead teams, you have probably experienced these:

Daily Post #1706 • August 10 2022 • Experience

Prisons and Gardens

Do you buy or sell work on a platform? Like Facebook, or Fiverr?

Daily Post #1705 • August 09 2022 • Craft

We’re all builders.

You’re a builder.

Daily Post #1704 • August 08 2022 • Craft

Two ways to have it all

There are two ways to have it all as a creator:

Daily Post #1703 • August 07 2022 • Experience

Total respect

Do you totally respect your clients and peers?

Daily Post #1702 • August 06 2022 • Momentum

Each small step

We can’t control much.Society celebrates the huge wins.

Daily Post #1701 • August 05 2022 • Craft

Pursuing statistical inevitability

We can’t control much.

Daily Post #1700 • August 04 2022 • Experience

What you can’t right-click save

Web3 has become a cultural phenomenon on the back of jpegs.

Daily Post #1699 • August 03 2022 • Craft

Better than Open or Closed

What’s a better platform, an open one or a closed one?

Daily Post #1698 • August 02 2022 • Craft

More skills, more practice

Want more skills?

Daily Post #1697 • August 01 2022 • Craft

New vs Joy

Is newer better?

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