Patrick Prothe
@patrickprothe
Patrick Prothe
- You can tell a lot about a person and how they think about their work based on whether or not they use “content” to describe what they do. A photographer who says that he is creating “content” for his YouTube channel is nothing more than a marketer churning out fodder to fill the proverbial Internet airwaves with marketing noise.
from I have a beef with “content”
- Content creators, by definition, don’t care about what they’re creating but only about the fact that they’re creating something. If you are a creator and you care, you should never think of yourself as a “content creator”
from How to Survive as a Human Creator in the AI Era
- Lifestyle. This may be the big one. Several clues are starting to emerge that point to parallels between the lifestyles of super agers. Healthy-aging researchers have identified four common habits.
A physically and intellectually active lifestyle.
The willingness or ability to constantly challenge oneself.
An active social life and a wide social netw... See morefrom Celebrating What's Right With Aging: Inside the Minds of Super Agers by Jeanne Dorin McDowell
a skill that can one day morph into something even more powerful: a healthy, clear vision of who your ideal client is.
from Frictionless Freelancing by Aaron Mahnke
In any complex effort, communicating a well-articulated vision for what you’re trying to do is the starting point for figuring out how to do it.
from Creative Selection: Inside Apple's Design Process During the Golden Age of Steve Jobs by Ken Kocienda
- “Limit everything to the essential but do not remove the poetry.”
— Dieter Rams, quoted in Less and More: The Design Ethos of Dieter Ramsfrom Dieter Rams
