Show Your Work!: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered

Your website doesn’t have to look pretty; it just has to exist. Don’t think of your website as a self-promotion machine, think of it as a self-invention machine.

You just have to be as generous as you can, but selfish enough to get your work done. “Above all, recognize that if you have had success, you have also had luck—and with luck comes obligation. You owe a debt, and not just to your gods. You owe a debt to the unlucky.” —Michael Lewis

If you want fans, you have to be a fan first.

No matter how famous they get, the forward-thinking artists of today aren’t just looking for fans or passive consumers of their work, they’re looking for potential collaborators,

You just have to be as generous as you can, but selfish enough to get your work done.

Make stuff you love and talk about stuff you love and you’ll attract people who love that kind of stuff. It’s that simple.

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You can’t plan on anything; you can only go about your work, as Isak Dinesen wrote, “every day, without hope or despair.” You can’t count on success; you can only leave open the possibility for it, and be ready to jump on and take the ride when it comes for you.

The people who get what they’re after are very often the ones who just stick around long enough.