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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!
Life is too short to merely follow all the rules, do your job, pay your taxes, and pass away.
What do we do when “new and improved” isn’t working?
I was fortunate enough to be laughed at by some of the kids, back in highschool, around 2002.
If you make your price cheap because you think it’ll win more customers, beware.
One of the gifts AI has given real artists, is the ability to see our art more clearly.
We should write more. Draw more. Make more.
One of the things my mum taught me, was how to enjoy today while fighting for tomorrow.
“I can develop sites without a developer!” says the designer.
If you need the perfect idea, you’ll never start creating.
People think the tools keep changing yet the skills you use with them stay the same.
I wear a wristwatch I was given for Father’s Day.
There are two stories being told, when you build something.
We rarely create with a blank canvas.
Meta declined for the first time since ever, reportedly down 20 million daily active users last quarter.
How do you know if your marketing is working?
Old, musty car. No air conditioning. No music. The driver is socially-awkward, but knows the specific route you want to take like the back of his hand, and has taken that sole route every day for almost a decade.
The desk is brown. The coffee is going cold. The notebook is open. The magazine is creased. The monitor is dusty.
We humans don’t think in facts. We feel in stories.
People are messy and contradictory. They think they’re logical, while being emotional. They think they’re buying utility when actually buying status, or the other way around. Carefully evaluate whether a $6 book is worth the money while sipping a $6 coffee they didn’t think twice about.
When I started using the Internet, people didn’t come here for riches.
How we see ourselves changes how we see our work.
I was chatting with my neighbor in the lane today.
I’ve long been an advocate for daily rituals.
Making growth fun is a passion as well as a business, for me.
List the projects you have on right now.
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!