If you have it in your brain that you won’t start making your art until you have a paying audience to fund your life from here on out, then you simply might not be one of us.

I say I do this for other people but I’m really doing it for myself.

You won’t believe that your work isn’t for everyone until you work with clients who don’t respect your process. 

It’s not ideal to go straight from a high-stimulation activity into a creative session. 

Tomorrow, this discount will be a little worse. Let me explain.

Can you imagine if I had picked one of those things and stuck with it?

Taylor Swift’s desirability to her fans is a 10 out of 10. Meanwhile, her desire to win their business might be a 1.2 out of 10. It’s not that she doesn’t want their business, but she certainly doesn’t need it.

We avoid artificial intelligence. Not because we’re better (we are), but because the creative experience is important for the viewer and the creator.

If this isn’t proof that no creative work can please everyone, I don’t know what is. 

After ten months of reading and quoting Blair Enns, I still hadn’t purchased his book. This morning, I bought it. What changed? 

Working all day is not productive. It has the feeling of productivity, but it is not actually so.

Real designers, I assume, must have endless ideas and images and layouts floating around in their heads all the time that they just pull down from the ether. I don’t have that.

This was written more than 115 years ago. It somehow feels more relevant today. Check it out.

Traditionally I’ve avoided running Black Friday sales, and even sending emails around Black Friday. Not this year.

Once upon a season of immense stress (I was producing The Chainsmokers live set at Summit One Vanderbilt), I told myself something along these lines.

This is a super-charged version of the content in my free course BOOKED, so I’ll be taking your questions live.

I’m not saying you need to abandon all morals in order to be successful, but you might need to abandon a bit more of your ego. 

If your business isn’t profitable then you should just go get a regular job.

The biggest advantage you can have as a creative person is simply enjoying your life.

The accessibility of writing shows us the resistance was always inside us. It was our fear, our ego that kept us from writing.