Not sure I agree
Fascinating, sometimes radical views that I’m undecided between accepting and opposing.
Not sure I agree
Often we fail to improve our lives simply because things don't get bad enough. If your new job is hell, you’ll leave it, but if it’s just unsatisfying, you’ll likely grind it out. Thus, small problems often threaten our quality of life more than big ones.
Gurwinder • 25 Useful Ideas for 2025
Content marketing: The core element of content marketing is SEO, which is how a search engine ranks the content once a user queries something on the internet related to your product.
Arkapravo Chakraborty • Go-To-Market - How to craft a winning marketing plan
I’m over writers and entertainers whose entire profit margin is driven by pointing out problematic stuff.
Everything is problematic. I don’t need another hot take to educate me about this.
– Dr Amber Hull
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!
Isn’t it all real life? Why devalue the time, those 40 or more hours we spent working?
Design education encourages new designers to use design as a tool for social change and sells them on the idea that fancy design methodologies can solve all kinds of problems. It is exhilarating, but everything always stays the same, because the reality is that the system keeps incentivizing companies chasing infinite growth on the back of a planet... See more
Does everything really stay the same though?
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!
All pretenses aside, Andy Warhol’s quote is the dominant sentiment of our time: “Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.” Making money is a high. Like sex and drugs and gambling and art. That all these activities cluster together at things called “art fairs” is no mistake.
Hardly agree. Not into the idea that becoming a big, well-lubricated cog in the machine of capitalism = creating art. But could it be that I don’t want to believe that that’s what many famous artists are: successful businesses?
The prior generation of information technology favored the introverts, whereas the new AI bots are more likely to favor the extroverts. You will need to be showing off all the time that you are more than “one of them.” Originality, including “in your face” originality, will be at a premium. If you are afraid to be such a “show off,” how is the worl... See more