Archive of posts from June 2025

Daily Post #2761 • June 30 2025 • Momentum

Accessible power

In 2007, I spent £5,000 on a Mac Pro to be able to do the sort of work I did.

Daily Post #2760 • June 29 2025 • Craft

There are simply more options

If AI makes some artists turn to generating art rather than painting it…

Daily Post #2759 • June 28 2025 • Momentum

Why do you do this?

Why do you do what you do?

Daily Post #2758 • June 28 2025 • Craft

Good comes from thankfulness

It takes a lot of volume to get good at something.

Daily Post #2757 • June 27 2025 • Craft

Fingers off buzzers

We’re not on a TV gameshow.

Daily Post #2756 • June 26 2025 • Craft

Building simplicity

Sometimes, building on an idea makes it more complicated. Bigger. Harder to comprehend, engage, or manage.

Daily Post #2755 • June 25 2025 • Momentum

Starved of simplicity

We used to write a word or two into an address bar, add ‘.com’, and hit enter.

Daily Post #2754 • June 24 2025 • Experience

This is your competition

My wife went to a medical clinic. Waited in the waiting room, only to find clinic was off that day.

Daily Post #2753 • June 23 2025 • Momentum

Productivity vs Effectiveness

Productivity has no opinion on the things we do.

Daily Post #2752 • June 22 2025 • Craft

The thief in residence

In the fight artists have with AI, we run the risk of losing something as important as our rights over our own work.

Daily Post #2751 • June 21 2025 • Experience

What they unlock

I started buying Macs and Moleskines in 2005.

Daily Post #2750 • June 20 2025 • Experience

You're good

You know your audience well enough…

Daily Post #2749 • June 19 2025 • Experience

Build on the dotted line.

If I have a headache, I take ……….

Daily Post #2748 • June 18 2025 • Experience

Better than tricks

Instead of looking for tricks/hacks to make ads ‘work’

Daily Post #2747 • June 17 2025 • Experience

Instead of follow-up

What if instead of sales follow-up,

Daily Post #2746 • June 16 2025 • Narrative

Cookie delivery

If someone walks up to you and says:

Daily Post #2745 • June 15 2025 • Experience

Tracking losses

Nobody tracks our losses, except ourselves when our mindset’s all wrong.

Daily Post #2744 • June 14 2025 • Craft

Slow down for better

Slow down.

Daily Post #2743 • June 13 2025 • Craft

Right once

If you want definite, sure-fire results, copy everyone else and get definite, sure-fire mediocrity. It’s the surest thing out there.

Daily Post #2742 • June 12 2025 • Craft

The better way to best

“The best” is something parents think about their children and, if we’re very lucky, vice-versa.

Daily Post #2741 • June 11 2025 • Experience

Notes are R&D

Something that helped me a lot, is to think of “notes” differently.

Daily Post #2740 • June 10 2025 • Experience

Hardly working

Some think that “hard work” is so you can later be “hardly working”.

Daily Post #2739 • June 09 2025 • Experience

Tired of marketing

If you feel tired of marketing

Daily Post #2738 • June 08 2025 • Experience

Making marketing hard

Not all marketing is created equal.

Daily Post #2737 • June 07 2025 • Experience

Tough choice

Your customer decides these things:

Daily Post #2736 • June 06 2025 • Craft

Draw-in

Follow-up doesn’t work.

Daily Post #2735 • June 05 2025 • Experience

Pace of inspiration

I started reading a magazine again lately.

Daily Post #2734 • June 04 2025 • Momentum

But first, coffee

A list of my morning rituals:

Daily Post #2733 • June 03 2025 • Craft

Algorithms and creativity

Focusing on the algorithm kills your creativity & reach.

Daily Post #2732 • June 02 2025 • Experience

What's the big idea?

“What’s the big idea?!”

Daily Post #2731 • June 01 2025 • Momentum

Idea muscle

My best ideas come from a combo of:

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