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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!
The little details often matter more than the big details.
Advice I received years ago that I still think about when good opportunities come along:
Sometimes bad news comes your way, on a phone call, out of seemingly nowhere.
If your favorite blogger likes something, you don’t have to like it too.
If we’re told to be on social media a lot…
My son played with his trains practically all day today.
Christmas is usually thought of as a time to celebrate, to cheer, to sing, to eat lots, to do everything you might usually do but… louder.
If your plan is to out-produce your competitors, AI will likely beat you.
Productivity is for machines. They’re good at knocking down tasks, and being measured by the number of tasks knocked down.
The funny thing about having the “fear of missing out”…
…is that it’s poses the wrong question.
Algorithms exist where there’s too much information coming at you at once.
And so the machine filters it for you.
Attention is not “shout about what we do louder or more frequently or with more persuasive words” anymore.
Proposal documents are guessing.
Internet does not have a content shortage problem.
Managers create environments where yesterday’s work gets done faster today.
Discretionary effort is worth twice to us than required effort.
What if you didn’t go to meetings, didn’t watch TV, and didn’t casually consume social media content?
There are failures where you were generous, but it didn’t pay off.
Don’t hire a coach because you don’t have answers.
What do you need to let go of for your next chapter?
A lot of people seem to suggest that using AI is practically necessary at this point.
When it comes to bad clients, bad opportunities and bad recruits…
We used to know the names of the bands we liked.
If it’s not either a gift (something they want that they didn’t ask for),
Imposter syndrome is a nice name for “I’m thinking about myself too much’ syndrome.”
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!