Your Monday brain

Because you are far from average / Issue 1,168

Oh, hi friends! 

Moderation is good. Deliberate progress. 

A few pitches a week. Publish a podcast here and there. Apply for this job, or that one. Slow and steady.

But I do wonder…

What is the benefit of an unreasonable goal?

Publish daily. Write the script in two weeks. Call a dozen people and tell them you’re looking for a job. Double your income. Cold email 50 agents.

Unreasonable goals must lead to better-than-average results.

And you’re not average.

Do not burn out. Do not run away. 

But think bigger.

What would be your unreasonable goal?

From writings of Martin Filler, architecture critic:

“I never forget the advice about writing—simplistic though it now may seem—that my early idol Lewis Mumford gave me at the outset of my career: ‘Have something to say, and say it as briefly and clearly as possible.’ He also urged me to remain open to unconscious sources of inspiration, and although some of the ideas I get in my sleep evaporate in daylight, many others wind up in print, for better or worse.”

What ideas did you have last night? 

Which ones can you take into today? 

(h/t Robby Macdonald)

What Is Art; Art Is What You Make

I haven’t played around with ChatGPT yet, mainly because I thought it could be demoralizing to see a computer spit out words that don’t come spitting out of my fingers quite as quickly, but I do find Dall-E very interesting.

It’s a AI-based art program. You describe the kind of art you want to create; it makes it. Above is what it made when I asked for “a Van Gogh style painting of an Oscar award statue.” Creepy. Cool.

Experiment for yourself and your projects here. (It’s free!)