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Nostalgia is a cultural response to change.

Excerpt from a 1976 interview of Anaïs Nin by Jeffrey Bailey of New Orleans Review:

NOR

We seem now to be swept by a tide of nostalgia, a series of tides, really. How do you react to this? Are you nostalgic?

NIN

No, I’m really not. I love my present life, I love the people who visit me now. I’m much more interested in experiencing new cycles than in... See more

To Mom: thanks for showing me how to be calm, cool, collected, and uncompromising when people are cruel. To Dad, the coolest CFO I know: thanks for teaching me about balance and how to save money wisely. To my brother Jonny: thanks for lending me money to buy comic books and video games when I didn’t follow Dad’s advice about saving wisely.

Be as intentional about your pricing as you are with your design process, your GitHub repository, the clothes you wear to that meeting, your Photoshop layers, and every other part of your business. You’ve already proven that you’re worth every penny you believe you are. Now you know how to go out there and ask for it.

One. Gajillion. Dollars?!

I’ve been fortunate to work with a stunning range of clients, from local printing companies and tiny churches to giant corporations with multibillion-dollar revenues, and everything between. Perhaps the most valuable lesson I’ve learned is that they’re all the same. People spend money the same, whether it’s a few hundred d... See more

Though many customers start a conversation asking for deliverables, it’s really because they don’t know what to ask for. No one was born a client, and most don’t even know what questions to ask.

It employs the anchoring effect, when the first element you encounter influences how you feel about every other price. In a TED talk, psychology and behavioral economics professor Dan Ariely described an anchoring experiment he did with MIT students, on the Economist’s subscription prices. At the time, the Economist listed three choices: $59 for we... See more