Monday

Monday and the final week before the 2023 holiday season kicks off. Once we start spinning into the end-of-year parties and celebrations, 2024 will wake us all up on another Monday in 8 short weeks. Today, to start the week, let's talk about money with Mark Randolph, then look at the most downloaded applications in 2022 and black and white photos of a few laborers in the 1950s.

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Marc Randolph is an entrepreneur and Co-Founder of Netflix and is providing advice to other entrepreneurs and folks like you and me. Another link from Hurly's newsletter is this article on Randolph's site, Money Talks and Why It Is a Bad Motivator for Business. The best line from the article is:

Chasing money to relieve the burden of not having any is a great motivator in the beginning, but over time, it continues to burn, and just like a drug, the more you get, the more you want. Money is a tool, like most things a business owner will need to run the business. Randolph references his upbringing and how growing up middle-class gave him both an appreciation of wealth and helped him not feel the need to reach too far too fast. In my experiences with several different levels of successful entrepreneurs, the self-made business owners who came from average middle-class households have maintained a sense of humility regarding how to spend money.

Understanding why you want to build a company, who you will serve, and the team you will build it with are more important at the beginning of your ventures. Once your business is up and running, money as a tool is critical - number one reason businesses fail… Cashflow. If you can manage your way through the lean years, wealth may be your reward, but in my experience, it's a much better bonus than the goal itself.

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We reviewed the weekly Visual Capitalist creations for the week, and this one stood out. Most popular App Downloads around the globe in 2022. It is now clear to us why META was able to waste billions on the Metaverse – of the top 10 app downloads, 4 were META apps, and they were downloaded 1.6 billion times in 2022.

Irving Pen

One of Vogue magazine's top photographers, Irving Penn, is highlighted in a piece on Moss and Fog. In collaboration with The Irving Penn Foundation, the collection is a series of black and white photos of tradespeople in the 1950s. There is a satisfaction that comes with photos of hard-working tradespeople from back in the day. Back when work required a well-deserved shower to wash off the physical remains of what you made.

In an article we linked up from Morning Brew, a new website we present gave us the 10 things Christoph Niemann reminds himself of before he draws. Niemann is an artist, author, and animator, and his advice about drawing can be repurposed for any kind of art, music, performance, or design. Check out the top half of his recommendations, then click on the image to see the rest.

Stand Inside Your Love.

Click on the Apple Music image to listen to the song on Apple Music or on the Spotify Image to listen to Spotify.

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