Brandy Cerne

This cute strategy for getting gifts for your kids (around the holidays or birthdays) to help limit the amount: Something you want / Something you need / Something to wear / Something to read

Few things give me more of an instant seratonin boost than discovering a new metaphor, and Headlands Center for the Arts recently served up a lovely one. The multidisciplinary arts center just north of the Golden Gate Bridge (where, on another tangential note, I had my 8th grade graduation party) shared that 2023 Artist in Residence Daniela Rivera... See more

When people resonate with what you create, it means you’ve correctly diagnosed and articulated a collective idea. Successful writing is the arbitrage of capturing people’s ideas and communicating it to them before they are aware of it themselves.

Brand sustainability comes down to two things:  relevance and differentiation.  Something either affects a brand's relevance; is it meaningful to my life today? And its differentiation; is it unique and can I identify that uniqueness? Everything falls into one of those two buckets as it relates to brand.  The goal is to be high on both. 

There are

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Consumerist society and blueprint bros would never tell you this but the best sleep optimization protocols are:

• 1) Peace of mind. it's living a life of virtue and forgiving yourself when you fall short. one thing that has helped me is journaling every evening before bed and harvesting all the high / lows of the day as learnings. my soul is here on

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Remember that most of us aren’t born with passions. Passions form from interest, dedication, and practice. The more you give to your craft, the more it gives back to you.

Instead of trying to build an audience...

Build an association with a specific word or idea.

• James Clear: Habits

• Dan Runcie: Business x Hip Hop

• Codie Sanchez: Boring businesses

• Nick Huber: Sweaty startups

• David Perell: Personal Monopoly

• Wes Kao: Spiky Point Of View

When you are associated with a specific word, phrase, idea, or movement, that... See more

People often confuse hospitality with luxury, but I could have given that table a bottle of vintage Krug and a kilo of caviar, and it wouldn’t have had anywhere near the same impact. Luxury means just giving more; hospitality means being more thoughtful.