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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!
When I build things, I try to remember:
This week, I spent hours wrestling with personality quirks of characters in a show I’m working on.
Think about what made you decide to choose the creative path you’re on.
If we love great art, creations, ideas, worlds, stories, products…
When there are lots of projects going on at once…
AI wins on speed, and average output.
Brands invest in UGC, CSR, influence, all sorts of things.
Talent is a dangerous word.
Not every project needs to be successful.
How will our loved ones remember us when we’re gone?
“Thanks for asking! I’m honored you thought of me, but I don’t have the capacity to take this on right now. I’m currently deeply focused on some existing projects, but do ask me again later in case the timing works out better then!”
Some storyboarders are using AI specifically to come up with more ideas, faster.
I’ve used Adobe products since 2002. I’m far from their biggest fan.
Some brands use marketing to “capture” us.
Recently I’ve been thumbing through artist profiles on Discord.
In rooms full of businessfolk, they tend to compare based on valuations and net worths. Numbers.
Public speakers memorize their talks so they can repeat it to others.
If you fit in and look like the others, you lose.
The “savvy entrepreneur” tries to do less.
Making products is basically just this:
I’m doing a painting for my wife’s birthday.
I own more art books than I’ve read (time!)
I give art and design feedback every single day, as part of my work.
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!