do what you love, but solve for distribution
time to get over yourself and engage in some cringey self-promotion
sari and
do what you love, but solve for distribution
Building things will become easier and easier
Getting people to care will become harder and harder
This is now the #1 bottleneck for company comms
Companies are launching and shipping every day, nonstop.
They have taste, judgment, execution
Attention is all they lack
Lulu Cheng Meservey
Algorithms pick winners. The worst content you make will be seen by NO-ONE. That should liberate you - Eugene Healey
My new X, is coming out in X(!) days and I am…shall we say? panicking just a smidgen. Perhaps because X has been in development for so long, I just kept pushing it to the edges of my mind, like “Oh, that’s ages away! I’ll get to marketing or promoting it or talking about it when it’s time.” Or maybe it’s just the fact that I’m not really great at
... See moresurrender to the cringe
Take a moment to consider why you’ve heeded the call. What’s stopped you from doing the damn thing? A fear of being cringe? A fear of not being good enough?
When you first start out, life will be exactly how it was before you started doing the thing except now... See more
Take a moment to consider why you’ve heeded the call. What’s stopped you from doing the damn thing? A fear of being cringe? A fear of not being good enough?
It's all going to flicker out at some point with everything else.
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Cissy Hu • Year of doing the damn thing
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
from Make your Stuff by Austin Kleon:
“it’s not enough to be good. In order to be found, you have to be findable.”
“If you want people to know about what you do and the things you care about, you have to share.”
“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.”
“Teaching people
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