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Social Media Shareable Image Design
Here are some images I have designed. Follow Caelan's board Social Media Graphic Design on Pinterest. People share things that make them feel valuable to their audience. When designing a social media image, there are 5 main considerations: It has to look pretty. It has to be the correct dimensions to look good on the platform. It has to clearly convey a single idea. It should create an emotional reaction in the viewer. It can direct attention to a destination or [...]
The Year of The Hanged Man
The Hanged Man (Trump XII) is a card of opposites, paradox, waiting, and patience. This is the card for my 38th year. Every year I draw a tarot card for my birthday. Reviewing the cards I've drawn in the past, and the years I've had alongside them, allows me to view my own life through the lens of the Hero's Journey, which is really the story of the Major Arcana. The Trumps, 22 in number, all symbolically represent the stages of the mystical [...]
New Years Resolutions 2016
Ordering two cups of coffee, my wife and I sat down for one of our most cherished rituals of the year. We had our favorite notebooks, with the pens that made us feel powerful when we wrote across the page, and together we wrote our New Year’s Resolutions. Yesterday’s Annual Review helped me calibrate myself for the year I want to have, and these resolutions are the habits I will use to become the person I want to be. 2016 New Year’s Resolutions [...]
Annual Review 2015
This was a great year. 2015 gave me more victories than failures, and instead of pressing courageously forward, this year I paused to marshal my resources, and decide on the direction I want to go for the next five years. The biggest lesson I learned this year: I've now been a member of Fizzle for more than a year, and I've learned a lot. The most important thing that Fizzle helped me to do is figure out the right direction [...]
Pioneer Nation 2015 Recap
Pioneer Nation is a gathering of internet creatives with a blog and a passion, committed to doing what they decided was their work in the world. There's this weird synergy at the convergence of authenticity, audience, and the Internet, where people can find a good problem to be solved and offer a solution to anyone who has this problem, anyone in the entire world. Many of the workshops were taught by people who had found this convergence, people who crafted an offer and [...]
A long and safe life, or a short and daring adventure?
Which would you choose? A long and safe life, or a short and daring adventure? “Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming 'Wow! What a Ride!'” - Hunter S. Thompson When Scott Dinsmore published the last blog post of his life, he declared that he was [...]