Renee De Four
@reneedefour
Renee De Four
The opposite of the shotgun approach is the "sniper" approach. It means getting super-clear on who our target client or customer is, and aiming directly for them. Setting up a booth at an event where we know our ideal byuers are going to be. Sending our portfolio directly to the companies or brands we want to work with. The approach will look... See more
Advice column: How do I market my art without social media?
Whenever possible (and it’s almost always possible), have someone do a day or two of work with you before you hire her; you can do this at night or on the weekends.
Sam Altman • How to hire
🧶 Simple living and 🧵 Voluntary simplicity
I love this guys’s confidence!
🌀 Agnes Martin - My Rabbit Hole of Exploration
This is where my journey with Agnes Martin begins - chapter 4, part 3 of A Simpler Life titled “voluntary poverty”.
The first time I read this, I was at a loss for words. How can someone live like this? I suppose a better question is, what did Agnes Martin realize or see that most of us don’t? Somehow, she was able to see that these fleeting forms of pleasure don’t bring happiness anyway, like Rupert (Spira) says.
Something else fulfilled her and it wasn’t to be found in acquiring material objects.
Personally, I know these things don’t bring happiness, certainly not in and of themselves. I’ve known this for years yet I still fall back into these cycles of materialistic consumption. I must pay more attention to the moment that my awareness shifts from the internal to external.
The challenge is to structure one’s workflow in a way that insight and new ideas can become the driving forces that push us forward. We do not want to make ourselves dependent on a plan that is threatened by the unexpected, like a new idea, discovery – or insight.