Look Ma, No Hands!

Look Ma, No Hands!

Drafting Your Destiny

Or How To Project Your Vision into Reality.

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B. Earl
Jul 24, 2024
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Every adventure begins with taking the first step. It’s easy to talk about doing things and plan big dreams while sitting on a couch drinking beers in a one-bedroom New Jersey apartment. But packing up your bag and jumping on a plane or applying for a business loan and selling your first company is a whole other level of commitment. When you take that first step, everything becomes real. And real scary too. They say that success is one action away. I’d like to think that since it keeps the hope alive.

Midjourney prompt: a large mystical loom weaving strands of stars into a timeline where all the human lives are connected, in the style of Stanley Kubrick, very crisp lines with bold primary colors --v 6.0

Being an independent creative is challenging as you are at the mercy of whatever the next gig might be. In the current age of content creation, audiences are often built through some level of virality or clickability. It hasn’t really changed much from the celebrity era. The saying “al…

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