Make No magic pill Drugs, tried them. Sex, had it plenty of times. Working hard towards a goal and finishing it, starting from zero and improving at a skill, buying things, making art, dancing,
Creating The eternal pursuit of unhappiness There’s a disease you might contract. You’ll know when you get it. What is it? It’s not really a disease. It’s an endless pursuit. Which is
Creating Copy until you have your own style When you start your creative work will suck. Why? Because you won’t have your own style yet. And that’s okay. What you can do is copy others until
Creating Who’s going to take responsibility? With opportunity comes responsibility. You can’t have the benefits of opportunity without the efforts of responsibility. The internet has given you the opportunity to create things at little to
Creating Make your income separate from your real thing A real way to stress test your side project, your real thing, the thing you work on and it doesn’t seem like work is to make an income separate
Getting Started “I’m not sure where to start” We were sitting at the dinner table and my little brother, Sam, starts speaking. He says he’s not sure where to start. Then he keeps going. “I’m not
Writing Every day for a year When you make it visual, you’ve got no choice. You can see it. It’s right there. You know if you miss it, the chain will break. It’s
Creating Hits and misses Dave and I were sitting at the cafe the other day. Talking about the cadence of putting out work. Social media makes it look like something needs to come out
Getting Started Talent not required It’s easy to palm it off on natural ability. “He’s a natural... that’s why he can do it.” “She’s so talented, I could never do that.
Creating The project needs to drive you forward In the beginning, your energy will drive you forward. You’ll start a new project with excitement, the quick wins will make you want to keep going. After a while,
Projects Release Frequently and Update or Hold Back & Wait? An internal debate I’ve been having with myself. If you’re working on a longer-term project, should you release frequently and update as required, have the market drive development.
Creating Your first 100 If you’ve never created anything, you might be trapped in a mental prison. In year 8, my art teacher told me my drawing was bad. So I stopped drawing.
Life and Living I've never been so excited Imagine growing up watching a television show and then getting to meet your favourite character. You get there and they realise how excited you are. They know what you're thinking.
Creating What if you couldn’t see the metrics? When the like button arrived, things changed. When view counts were made visible to everyone, things changed. Changed? Now everyone had something to compare their work to. If you created
Art You can use your day to day as fuel for your art Stuck? Write a story about what happened today. Working a job which doesn’t set you on fire? Remind yourself, it helps to pay for food, it gives you funds
Art No Eggs On Toast If you’re ever in Melbourne (or Paris), you should visit Hardware Societe. I found them because of a book I picked up in a cafe at the markets. The
Life and Living When will you be ready? When you think of starting something new, sharing your work, putting your art out there, it can be tempting to wait. Wait until you know more. Wait until you're not
Art Attention to detail Dad and I went to the barber today. The local one down the road. I always get Alex. He's from Colombia. Loves baseball, loves his little girl. She's 7-months old
Life and Living How to deal with imposter syndrome The first time I walked into an artificial intelligence meetup, I felt like I shouldn’t have been there. The second time I walked into a machine learning event, I
Creating Is it beautiful? That’s question one. The next: Is it functional? Whenever you make something, keep these in mind. Why beauty first? Because beauty is a function. If something is beautiful, it
Creating Create like a toddler My friend was over with his son the other day. My friend has been to my place plenty of times, his son too, but it’s only now he’s
Brazilian Jiu Jitsu White belt mentality I’ve been doing Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu (BJJ) for the past year. I’m addicted. I should’ve signed up to a martial art earlier. Aside from the life lessons like
Creating What can I create today? If there isn't a YouTube video on something, it doesn't exist. And if you can't find what you're looking for on the first page of Google, you'll probably stop looking
Creating Starting is the easy part The professional knows starting is the easy part. They know this because finishing is harder. The amateur starts a list of projects and finishes none. The professional starts a list
