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Scheduling, payoff, and clarity
As I return to my business writing practice, I’ve also been getting in the groove of finding new business opportunities. Using the Consistency Journal, I’ve found three things that get in the way of me practicing every day: Scheduling: You need to make time to practice. You can do so ahead of time, or you…
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Bloat
One tradeoff with being prolific is bloat. If you’re being prolific, and someone was to sort through your body of work, they’d find some good stuff amongst a bunch of pretty bad stuff. In other words, it’s a lot of work for them to sort through. One solution is to judge your work after they…
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Rethink your product’s price, packaging, and promotion
A few weeks ago, memory chips got more expensive. This would affect pricing for a lot of companies that needed these chips for their devices. Nintendo was one of these companies. In one view of the world, a deeper vertical integration would’ve helped solve this problem; if Nintendo made its own chips, it would have…
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The prolific Iceman
Drake’s decision to release two albums in addition to his long awaited Iceman—that’s three albums total—resonates with me. He’s one of the more prolific artists who actually follows through, delivering an album almost every year since his debut. I’m sure dropping more songs at once helps him earn more revenue from streaming, and it helps…
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Reflecting on creative consistency
When some of my friends set their minds to something, they don’t stop. They make it look easy. I know friends who commit to publishing a newsletter every month, and they’ve been doing it for years. Though I write this blog post every day, there are many times when I consider quitting. The path is…
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Confidence is high
Wayne Chang was a professor at the University of Waterloo’s entrepreneurship and business program. At the end of classes and emails, he would close off with the statement, “Confidence is high.” In their tributes to him, this motto was one that students recalled and reaffirmed. Wayne passed away months ago, before I found out about…