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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!
Which way of working makes you faster?
Most brands think their offers are generous.
We can accelerate our learning by being like child.
You don’t need to love your clients.
If you want to be popular, do whatever is popular, regardless of taste, talent, preference, or dreams.
For some reason, social feeds are offering me “operating system wars” at the moment.
Photoshop changed a lot in the last 20 years.
But I still use it the same way as I did 20 years ago.
In English class back at school, a teacher would give you a “prompt” to write about.
Social networks make you feel you’ll miss out on something important if you don’t check them again in an hour.
For the longest time, I thought “process” starved the creative process.
I had a call a few days ago with a nice guy who’s building his business, who is one of many who have meetings with me periodically to seek guidance on their way.
Optimization is a trap.
Productivity is a trap.
Efficiency is a trap.
Photographers complain about AI generating photos… then use AI to generate website assets.
Not all games divide players into winners and losers.
We don’t get better by working harder and harder for hard clients.
Lowering standards creates short-term wins and long-term losses.
“Time well spent” is an ambiguous goal for time.
The riskiest thing you can do, is what everyone else is doing.
Boring will not make you stand out.
When you giving out free cookies, some people still say no.
It still surprises me when people tell me they’ve been reading my stuff for years, and I have no idea who they are.
Instead of trying to make it good, make it less bad.
Instead of worrying about whether AI will take your job…
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!