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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!
Dorothy didn’t say “Please, tin man, help me get to the wizard of Oz.”
WHen Henry Ford said if he’d asked customers what they wanted, they’d have said faster horses…
I’ve written and published an idea every day for over 8 years.
Hype is a dead-end. A trap. An excuse.
What do you deliberate over?
There’s a lot of software out there.
Go on social media. Everyone has opinions on everything.
We let our computers have too much stimulation on them.
A lot of our hangups come from our childhood.
Sometimes, we shouldn’t make it better.
In Starbucks today, I sat behind a guy giving a sales presentation.
Your best work is not for everybody.
The App Store promoted a popular, general-purpose AI app as a recommended download today.
We can’t really do busyness and business at the same time.
The thing about brand positioning is…
When Adobe charges a monthly subscription for its creative apps, the world cries afoul, cursing the company and the subscription model.
We can invest in our skills by spending $20/month on reading books about them.
Today, I saw developers online arguing about which LLMs should be allowed to use their open source contributions.
One of the most popular cameras of 2025 cost about £1200.
When you practice a skill, you get better at it.
There’s comfort in fitting into market categories.
There have never been more brands than there are today.
If you’re Microsoft and you want users to use OneDrive, you have two choices:
Whether we like it or not, people use social networks for… a lot.
What if you thought of your craft as a product, for just a moment?
Go back twenty years, in your mind.
January first isn’t for looking back on the year we’ve had.
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!