Archive of posts from April 2026

Daily Post #3065 • April 30 2026 • Momentum

Company virtues and your success

When a company you like buying from does something you don’t like, what do you do about it?

Daily Post #3064 • April 29 2026 • Craft

Average in, average out

If most people publish average ideas…
Run average campaigns…
In average businesses…
With average levels of care…

Daily Post #3063 • April 28 2026 • Momentum

Perfectionism vs growth

There’s a subtle difference between perfectionism and growth:

Daily Post #3062 • April 27 2026 • Experience

Photoshopping the packaging

When you have a product to sell, you can either:

Daily Post #3061 • April 26 2026 • Craft

Two types of notebook user

There are two types of notebook users.

Daily Post #3059 • April 24 2026 • Narrative

No more software brain

A lot of folks are talking about ‘software brain’ again.

Daily Post #3058 • April 23 2026 • Craft

More creative, not less

We’re at a crossroads.

Daily Post #3057 • April 22 2026 • Narrative

We don't talk

Between 2005 and 2019, the number of words we speak out loud to another human reportedly fell by nearly 28 percent.

Daily Post #3056 • April 21 2026 • Experience

New-and-improved

Why are shiny new-and-improved things exciting?

Daily Post #3055 • April 20 2026 • Resilience

More, even

When the camera happened, artists were supposed to be doomed.

Daily Post #3054 • April 19 2026 • Experience

Some want

Some want to pay less, to get less, while demanding more, and leave for a cheaper option when it comes along.

Daily Post #3053 • April 18 2026 • Narrative

Words that spread

Your message isn’t what it says on your website.

Daily Post #3052 • April 17 2026 • Craft

More ideas

Sometimes, you can get more ideas to explore by prompting an LLM for them.

Daily Post #3051 • April 16 2026 • Narrative

Pointless or the point

Is it pointless, or the point?

Daily Post #3050 • April 15 2026 • Experience

I don't mind

I don’t mind if your email isn’t perfectly formatted. It shows me you cared to write it yourself.

Daily Post #3049 • April 14 2026 • Experience

A specific group of people

Moleskine have been a staple of the creative world for decades.

Daily Post #3048 • April 13 2026 • Narrative

We're not computers

For a long time, people pursued convenience.

Daily Post #3047 • April 12 2026 • Momentum

In your hands

If you keep a notebook or pen in your hand, you’ll write or draw.

Daily Post #3046 • April 11 2026 • Experience

On being a really nice person

My team was celebrated by a client because of the energy it brought to an emergency.

Daily Post #3045 • April 10 2026 • Experience

Great gardeners

Our gardeners don’t touch the neighbours gardens.

Daily Post #3044 • April 09 2026 • Narrative

Welcome back to the late-90s

When web authors don’t care enough to put readers above themselves, websites are a chore.

Daily Post #3043 • April 08 2026 • Craft

Good documentation

When you write good documentation, you’re really writing a book.

Daily Post #3042 • April 07 2026 • Narrative

Brands are characters

Your brand is a character.

Daily Post #3041 • April 06 2026 • Craft

Your magic

If you try to ‘generate’ a shortcut to creating your magic, you’ll lose the magic.

Daily Post #3040 • April 05 2026 • Resilience

Too much scrolling

Whenever I go to the park with my son, I’m struck:

Daily Post #3039 • April 04 2026 • Experience

Craft social

As of last year, 51–53% of global internet traffic was bots, surpassing human activity for the first time.

Daily Post #3038 • April 03 2026 • Narrative

The small moments

When the Gorillaz team were waiting in LA to hear whether or not their movie would happen,

Daily Post #3037 • April 02 2026 • Experience

Cold email in 2026

Everyone’s sending cold emails.

Daily Post #3036 • April 01 2026 • Craft

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