J. Danielle
@jasminedanielle
strategist. writer. tinkerer. hobby hobbyist.
J. Danielle
lettersfromthebside.substack.com
there has been a shift in the standards of what defines a successful content strategy, marked by a move away from the volume and speed formula to a focus instead upon relevancy and customer centricity
Offset • Content is king, but distribution is the kingdom
Thomas Hine’s 1995 book, Total Package, which chronicles the history of consumer packaged goods, described the things that house the products we buy as “persuasive containers”—boxes and jugs and jars designed not just to safeguard their contents but to produce particular behaviors in the people who encounter them. The consumer system puts forth a... See more
As fancy and shiny as technology and all things digital are, we are still drawn to small, meaningful objects. Maybe it’s because they just feel really good to hold, own, display, and love.
Sandy Sanchez • The Human Urge to Collect Little Objects
I can’t really paint or draw but I want to paint this.
Aaron Gilbert / Empire State of Mind/Flaco 730 broadway (Seen at The Whitney Museum of Art | Shifting landscapes)
“In politics, as in nature, the largest tsunami generated by an earthquake is often not the first wave but the next one.”
Perfectionism has nothing to do with getting it right. It has nothing to do with fixing things. It has nothing to do with standards. Perfectionism is a refusal to let yourself move ahead. It is a loop—an obsessive, debilitating closed system that causes you to get stuck in the details of what you are writing or painting or making and to lose sight
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