Combining some advice from Kevin Kelly, Shawn Coyne, and Seth Godin. 1000 true fans will make it possible for you to live solely on your art. They’ll be a subset of at least 10,000 readers. But you have to start small.
When did you realize wrestling is fake?
On this week’s show, we give up on the book-a-week format because we can’t read fast enough. Instead we start recommending podcast episodes and explain what we learned from them.
Video: Book notes for “Barking up the Wrong Tree” by Eric Barker
Video book notes about things I learned reading Barking Up the Wrong Tree, by Eric Barker.
Sketchbook: Working on a publishing schedule
I’ve been thinking about how to create a publication schedule. A lot of days I just don’t know what I’m going to work on in the morning. I’ll wake up and have a block of time in the morning. I know that I want to do the morning creativity routine. After that though I know […]
Sketchbook: Planning different time scales and appropriate books
I listened to Pat Flynn with the creators of the 5-Minute Journal. A few years ago they were thinking about all the things they’ve learned from reading about gratitude and wanted to make it easier to apply the principles. What came out of it was the five-minute journal. I’ve been thinking about that this year […]
Sketchbook: Will Ferrell*
It took me three tries to remember his name has two Rs. I drew this while listening to Will Farrell’s appearance on the BS Report with Bill Simmons. I really liked this and it’s just another example of someone working very hard for many years before becoming an overnight success. From what I’ve read, I […]
6: Creative Confidence
Morning creativity routine: The Great Courses
There was a sale on Audible the other day for books from the Great Courses. I bought one before and returned it because I got a little overwhelmed because it was dozens of hours long. I bought six books of time without intending to finish them entirely. I’ll treat them kind of like buying a […]
Sketchbook: my favorite apps
Just drawing some of my favorite iOS apps. I’ll probably use some parts of this to write a post about how I use some of these day to day. If I could only have one, it’d be Notability.
