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this is my journal of occasionally useful thoughts. design. marketing. creative. discussion. in-house marketing designer (currently 🧦). weekly new hobby starter. 🇨🇦 https://cmrn.co
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Really not doing my weekends well lately — it feels like I always leave them with nothing accomplished yet no recharge either. I just kinda use them to temporarily ✨ exist ✨

Another day another price hike

You ever pitch a font for a project, but then after it gets approved you use it for some different copy and it's like "oh! oh.. oh" that font really only looked good for certain words.

Tangentially-related: does anyone have any huge praise or red flags for services like Incogni and other data removers? I don't have anything specific to wipe, but it would be nice to just cleanse my digital footprint and cut down on some of the spam.

Man, whoever went to the same school as me and has the same name as me is in hot demand for heavy equipment jobs. Just a shame all the recruiters all contact me instead...

Design community idea: Discord server but with a channel where you just spam "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA" every time your Adobe apps crash

Looking at some of these financial advisor prices... Can I finance a financial advisor 😅

I was thinking "you know how cool it would be if you could have a futuristic tattoo on your arm that changed every day" But upon further reflection I guess that's just called a washable marker.

I don't understand crypto, but I really don't understand crypto in the sense of scam coins and rug pulls, over and over and over... How are there still people putting in money like "this one is gonna be different" ...? Is it just knowing someone will be the sucker but being deluded it won't be you?

Been sleeping like shit lately but kinda just embracing it and... I kind of like starting the day early. Which I never thought I'd say, but it's amazing how you can feel like you get a whole day done by 11am. Early bird arc?

Been finding a lot of value in getting some musings out of my mind and onto paper. #musings #graphicdesign #poem #poetry #illustration #eink #supernote

3+ "You're on a roll on LinkedIn!" emails per week, and yet I've maybe opened it once in months.

Always a struggle to know what you should focus on accepting and what you should focus on improving.

Started looking into buying a new knife and pan, and I can already see what 100% of my ads will be for the next few months.

The more we strive for the 'optimal' path, the more we close ourselves off to serendipity.

Bought some coffee beans at the local coffee shop instead of the grocery store and I fear this is a little pleasure I'll never be able to go back from.

Did I need this? NO ( YES )

Making friends is scary 😰 [posts the grown man]

Books, but apparently I only read ones that start with "they woke up beside a road with no idea where or who they were."

Ah yes Amazon, that is also my definition of “New”. Guess it’d be rude to not take one and return the rest to keep it going…

I mean I guess if you block enough of your content behind a "SUMMARIZE FOR ME" button, it does become essential...

Gonna try to get into a chef phase 👨‍🍳 The way I see it, you need to cook every day... so you might as well try to enjoy it. And let's just say a lot of things have been taking the freezer → air fryer → my stomach path lately.

Something I often debate with myself: (How much) do you need to be on social media to develop social/paid advertising? I still haven't got to the bottom of it and I'd love for the answer to be none—but the truth is—every time I natively use social I do end up DMing myself all sorts of references.

Been clicking those random 46 view videos that show up on YouTube recommendations lately, and it's pretty fun background noise watching completely different niches and production-values of content.

If you want a clear example of 'time is money' go list an inexpensive item on Marketplace and see just how long it takes you to end up at 'I should have just thrown this away'.

Have any platforms implemented AI summary/generation features that you actually use? My biggest gripe is they’re all entirely worthless feeling. I’ve never wanted any of my Google workspace summarized. I’ve never wanted to ask the Instagram search bar a question. These just take up screen space.

The constant battle between staying informed, and maybe ignorance is just better for my mental health.

🗺️ no longer lost but still trying #graphicdesign #mixedmedia #poster #digitalart

This, I fear, is what I need.

Added a lamp to my desk and I feel like a new man