Itay Dreyfus

To clarify, my definition of design goes beyond aesthetic qualities and into areas of maintenance, cost, profitability, speed, and purpose.

It's a simple way to sustain an ongoing always-on outreach to nurture your network. This is the lifeblood of generating consulting work.

In the last five years they have released more than 100 products.

One mistake I often used to make at Justin.tv was offering a potpourri of business models (virtual goods, product placement, chat ads, contests, etc..). I was embarrassed to say Justin.tv would monetize with advertising when clearly that was the only answer. Own the simple business model.

Really unpopular opinion for designers: it's easier, more joyful and beneficial to do free work for someone you like, than design and release your perfect portfolio with case studies. The only rule for free work is that you should be the one to offer it, and not asked to do it.

But he and Ross still come to work, daily, in search of transcendence.

I have some great memories of talking about “investing in things that doesn’t change”

Online, we need to make the big feel smaller, in the right ways. The challenge to start small from something that is currently controlled by Facebook and Google, is very hard. But people are doing it. Look at The Correspondent, or Open Culture, or Brain Pickings, or thousands of other small projects that have good communities around them. We need m... See more

In a moment of randomness, I've came across this newsletter issue by @tomcritchlow on getting more client work. Now that I'm refocusing on indie-ness, I realize this is something I do whenever I seek work: posting on socials, emailing former colleagues, and texting friends. https://t.co/JjwBEFGI3G