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it is lucrative to know precisely what makes your audience happy to support you

“ There’s two different types of confidence. One that is based on the belief that you’re gonna be successful. You’re as much as you need to to do what you have to do. Well there’s another confidence that is the lack of fear of failure. A surrender . It’s the first time I made an album from this place of this is what I need to say .” - Rosalía

I can picture a life of trade offs, I can imagine the compromise and justifications for never committing to the work I love due to the responsibilities of life and want for comfort.

I do not want that life.

At best, what any of us can hope for with our creative work is to organize, clarify or more clearly convey the unnameable that lives within us.

Burnout is the ultimate agency-killer. This is so true that I’ve learned to identify a reduction in agency as one of the first signs of burnout, one that shows up even before I consciously realize what’s happening.

As a rule, in a corporate environment, never signal that you buy the dream or that you crave an audience, as each of these can be provided at little to no cost for the employer and for little or no lasting benefit to you. Instead, signal that you crave the two things of real, lasting value a quality employer can offer: a learning environment and,... See more

To signal a desire for learning, do cool things that require you to learn and do more than the job requires. Employers are, in general, sort of like archeologists: They study artifacts to understand the people who made them. So make artifacts that demonstrate you like to learn things.