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

What do I wish existed in the world but doesn’t yet exist?

And of the things that appear on that list, can you build any of them?

I think the job of the artist is to remind people of what they have chosen to forget.

—Arthur Miller

Most times, the best way to create value is to double down on the domain-specific insights you’ve collected over your entire career.

—Nikita Bier

we are simply incapable of imagining ourselves on the other side of a profound change, because the present self doing the imagining is the very self that needs to have died in order for the future self being imagined to emerge.

This is why the profoundest changes tend to happen not willed but spawned by fertile despair — the surrender at the rock bo

You don’t want to be in the selling business. You want to be in the reorder business

- John Paul DeJoria

“‘Not your best ever’

In order to have a best ever, hearing this is part of the deal.

Each thing is not going to top everything that came before it. Progress is rarely smooth.”

-Seth Godin

To get rich, do work where you get paid in proportion to the number of customers you satisfy instead of the number of hours you work. Not all work of this kind will make you rich, but nearly all of the work that can make you rich is of this kind.

—Paul Graham