Patrick Prothe
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Patrick Prothe
Distinguish between what’s in your control and what isn’t. If it’s not in your control, put it out of your head. Trying to control outcomes makes you disappointed and resentful. Focus only on your thoughts and actions.
Derek Sivers • How to Live: 27 conflicting answers and one weird conclusion
Creativity is not some mysterious form of magic. It’s something that is rewarded to those who put in hours and hours of mundane, boring, tedious work.
Getting Started with Prospecting Through Email When you first start doing email prospecting, commit to sending five to ten cold emails each week. You can even send these emails through your personal email account because of the low volume outbound of messages.
Matthew Paulson • Email Marketing Demystified: Build a Massive Mailing List, Write Copy that Converts and Generate More Sales (Second Edition)
For starters, the value of creative work will shift from outcomes to process and ingenuity. The original idea, the judgment, the innovations in process, and the story become more important than ever. As any art collector knows, in a fine art gallery, a piece is valued based on its lineage, its originality, and the trials and tribulations of the
... See moreScott Belsky • 9 Forecasts for the Near Future, With Implications
This is a book about following associations—and about how they cohere into something tangible. And, in retrospect, this string (how my mind was looking to put something together before I was aware of it) was this book’s genesis: If I could somehow make the process legible, I might find making art myself less intimidating and begin to make headway.
... See moreAdam Moss • The Work of Art: How Something Comes from Nothing
AI is setting a new standard for customer experience.
ModernMind Publications • Generative AI for Beginners Made Easy: Master Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Fundamentals, Learn Creative AI, and Enhance Your Skills With Interactive Real-World Exercises
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.
I have a beef with “content”
