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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!
Two paths, polar opposites, both viable:
How do you have an idea to share every single day and publish it?
Today, someone described my spending habits as “abundant creativity”.
Artists have long had a choice: content-factory production, or original, provenential creativity.
If you want to create and spread your ideas, but most people don’t want what you want…
I’ve written before about making your six-year-old self proud.
If we can choose how to feel (we can), maybe we should choose optimism.
The artist often fears business, worrying about becoming marginalized or corrupted, along with their work.
Many creatives right now spend a lot of time…
When we’re clear, we know what to do with that extra five minutes we found.
If a programmer can produce code that is approximately what you wanted…
I talked with a customer today.
Think you know your audience well enough?
You can tell when tech people make art decisions (“just generate all the pictures, it’s faster and it looks the same!”)
“Can’t you just generate more posts now there are 3,202 to train an LLM on?”
I noticed today that I shoot photos in the same way I draw art.
“Rock music isn’t meant to be perfect” — Ozzy
“Can’t” is a dirty word.
“It’s very difficult to be very lazy. It takes a lot of imagination to do nothing and you have to be sufficiently self-confident not to have a bad conscience. You have to have a taste for life, so that every minute is complete in itself and so you don’t have to keep saying ‘I’ve done this or that.’ You need strong nerves to do nothing. Being lazy also means that other people’s opinions don’t matter. Nor does the idea of always having to prove yourself.” — Françoise Sagan
People seem to be growing increasingly politically charged about the products they choose and the brands they associate with.
Something marketing folks need to rediscover:
Some of my favorite writers rarely write.
Disney’s greatest work came from when animators led the company, making and selling cartoons, profitably, so that they can make and sell more cartoons, which made fans happy.
Something that’s always irked me about online education:
If you want to improve code, ask a machine, or a person who can think like a machine. That’s what programmers do.
For creative spirits building sustainable brands, I think one of the most important “laws” in the book, “The 48 Laws of Power” is ““Do Not Go Past The Mark You Aimed For”.
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!