Needing Feedback

<p>Last night, just before heading up to bed I published a blog post. Not an exceptionally long one, but something that <a href="/2021/02/10/reaching-out.html">I wanted to share</a> and hopefully inspire others. Rushing it out, hitting

Insular Bubbles

<!--kg-card-begin: html--><p><a href="https://mike.rockwell.mx/asides/843">Mike Rockwell</a>:</p> <blockquote><p> The problem with insular bubbles isn’t just that you’re surrounded by people that share the

Reaching Out

<p>It was so nice today to receive a text out the blue just asking if I was ok. It isn’t something I get very often, if at all, but to come from someone I ‘met on the web’ it meant so much more. With my wife

Classifying Yourself

<!--kg-card-begin: html--><p>Kaitlyn Tiffany on <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2021/02/aesthetics-wiki-cottagecore-tumblr-tiktok/617923/">Cottagecore</a>:</p> <blockquote><p> The impulse for classification is a staple of internet life—tag

Asking, Giving And Blogging

<p>After my failed attempt to run a blog membership I was disillusioned with trying to monetise my creative things. Annoyed that although a few people contributed, it didn’t do anywhere near the level that I expected and really knocked my confidence.</p><p&

Looking Forward

<!--kg-card-begin: html--><p>I am not going to lie, 2020 was tough — as it was for loads of people, some more so than me. The pandemic hit at a time I was finally moving towards the goals I have worked for for a long time. Then

Strategy and tactics and Powerpoint

<!--kg-card-begin: html--><p>Seth <a href="https://seths.blog/2021/02/strategy-and-tactics-and-powerpoint/">wrote</a></p> <blockquote><p> If you’re not trying to cause an action or some other change in attitude or belief,

Adopt The Opposite Position

<!--kg-card-begin: html--><p>Chris Wilson in <a href="https://learncreateshare.substack.com/p/to-goal-or-not-to-goal-that-is-the?r=7zbud&amp;utm_campaign=post&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=copy">Learn Create Share</a>:</p> <blockquote&

Twitter Muscle Memory

Whenever an idea hits me, or I just want to ‘say’ something to the internet I press the little blue box with the bird on it. That is just what I’ve always done, well for the last 12 years anyway, and that habit is proving almost impossible to break.

Why Does Every Advert Look The Same?

<!--kg-card-begin: html--><p>Josh Gabert-Doyon <a href="https://www.wired.co.uk/article/corporate-memphis-design-tech">wrote</a>:</p> <blockquote><p> It involves the use of simple, well-bounded scenes of flat cartoon figures in action, often