Not sure I agree
Fascinating, sometimes radical views that I’m undecided between accepting and opposing.
Not sure I agree
When we describe work and life as things to be balanced, we are suggesting that work and life are at odds with each other. More time or energy allocated to work means less time and energy allocated to life.
This is obviously absurd, though. Work is just another part of life like family, community, food, fitness, creativity, travel, fun,... See more
Infinite Play • Work Life Balance is Impossible
Is it absurd?
You’re doomscrolling because you’re looking for something to transform you but you can’t stay with one thing for long enough to be transformed by it. You have short attention span on an existential scale. You’re gliding past thousands of small worlds in minutes, laughing at one post, feeling dread at the next, tempted to buy something right after.... See more
Sherry Ning • You’re bored because you don’t love anything
Can you be a designer or marketer in today’s economy and offer services that are unattached to money, that don’t promise a major financial benefit?
Invite Anyone, Anywhere to Your Podcast with Guest Clones
jellypod.ai
It’s wild this is a thing but it’s also hard to see who would truly engage with an AI podcast host?
A rare meme that’s equal parts educational and entertaining. I wish I made it! Via @qvarantine.events on IG
Tatum Dooleysubstack.comSuper interesting take on “how” to name a work of art
if it's a well-thought out, well targeted, well positioned campaign then it's not really a hindrance to anybody. If I'm a DIY enthusiast genuinely needing to buy some new plyers, and I come across an advert for some new fancy plyers, that's a good thing.
Do marketers make the internet a worse place? Specifically digital and social media marketers
How does one start a new business or sell a product in a world without advertising?
How do you scale something fast enough through just word of mouth to get out of the red?
If I open a new bakery, is it predatory to send a pamphlet to the nearby houses? Should I just sit quietly and hope that enough people notice?
How do you scale something fast enough through just word of mouth to get out of the red?
If I open a new bakery, is it predatory to send a pamphlet to the nearby houses? Should I just sit quietly and hope that enough people notice?
mertd • Advertising and marketing have ruined *society*, the internet is just one of a l... | Hacker News
Ah, the age old question!
Educate your fucking client .
I see all too often designers, developers, animators and creatives say one of the following statements -
I see all too often designers, developers, animators and creatives say one of the following statements -
- Omg that client is an idiot
- Oh they just don’t get digital
- It’s too hard for them to understand
- They just requested XYZ, hahahaha
- They just asked all the pages of the website to be turned into PDFs (probably not this one,
Educate your fucking client? Educate your fucking client!
No one’s coming to save you: A designer’s unfiltered take on surviving a brutal market
Mindaugas Petrutisopen.substack.com
This post makes the argument that the market has changed, hiring has changed, and if you want to stay competitive you need to do three times (or more) as much work as you were doing so far. Why? To make your design resume and portfolio hyper-relevant, to A/B test versions of those, to practice for interviews by listening to recordings of previous interviews and mentoring answers word for word.
This is crazy. This is less of a lesson for individual candidates to learn and more of a reflection of how unprepared busynesses and hiring departments are with the current candidate pool. How the crazy standards they set and the amount time expected people put in for free. Insane expectations if you ask me.
As someone who’s been in the job market for over a year, I have so much more to write about this imbalance and why it can’t be all put in the hands of candidates to work this out. And it infuriates me that there’s people that just because they made it, because they were those 1/10000 who got the gig, they feel like they’re solved the riddle and get to tell everyone that they riddle is easy if you know what to do. Yet never at any time question if the riddle should exist at all.