do what you love, but solve for distribution
time to get over yourself and engage in some cringey self-promotion
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do what you love, but solve for distribution
When you believe the work before you is the single piece that will forever define you, it’s difficult to let it go. The urge for perfection is overwhelming. It’s too much. We are frozen, and sometimes end up convincing ourselves that discarding the entire work is the only way to move forward. The only art the world gets to enjoy is from creators
... See moreCeline Nguyen • Everything I Read in February 2025
Many of us spend our lives pursuing private acceptance through external success. But no matter the award or honor, our inner doubts will remain. True acceptance comes from inside us. It takes asking ourselves challenging questions like: What do I want from my work? What’s most important about it to me ? How would I create my work differently if I... See more
Yancey Strickler • What if You Gave Yourself the Gift of Inner Acceptance?
i liked how Yancey mitigated his desires with publishing and creating for himself
Our friends at MSCHF once shared a fascinating anecdote: they always have release parties for their drops the night before. They want to celebrate making the work rather than how the work is received.
There’s a lot of wisdom in this. First, it’s common for our hoped-for release day dreams to outpace reality. Outsized expectations can cause us to... See more
There’s a lot of wisdom in this. First, it’s common for our hoped-for release day dreams to outpace reality. Outsized expectations can cause us to... See more
Promotional Principles for Creative People
Kafka would whiff on this, but the other two would excel if you told them this was a necessary part of achieving their artistic dreams. There is this idea that prolific, famous creative people are wilting flowers who are just accidentally dedicated to perfecting their craft and making work that is both authentic and widely popular. I think people... See more
Sasha Chapinsubstack.com
In the months leading up to pub day, I sent approximately 8,613 emails out to friends, professional contacts, people I talked to once in a buffet line at a writing workshop 3 years ago, people who follow me on Twitter, and people who have never heard of me or my little book, offering them galleys and (in some cases!) directly begging them to cover... See more
Sara Petersen • Some truths about writing a book
As I prepare to transition from my “heads down building a product” era to “I’ve worked so hard to build this thing, get over yourself and engage in some cringey self-promotion” era I need to fully embrace Austin Kleon’s mantra: “it’s not enough to be good. In order to be found, you have to be findable.”
Along those lines, this quote stopped me in my
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