Disqus - Latest Comments for rickwolff

Re: The 36 greatest free web fonts

Rick Wolff — Fri, 03 Jun 2016 10:57:05 -0000

Kind of amazing omission: Alegreya and Alegreya Sans!

Re: LinkedIn: Engagement Comes First (and You’re Using it Wrong)

Rick Wolff — Fri, 03 Jun 2016 10:24:47 -0000

I've been on LinkedIn for about 8 years, and have never gotten approached this way.

Re: Here goes.

Rick Wolff — Fri, 27 Nov 2015 18:04:22 -0000

The answer to your question is, right now. A few minutes ago.

Re: What it means to be an entrepreneur (Plus, finding your passion and building an abundance mindset) [FS131]

Rick Wolff — Sun, 01 Nov 2015 17:01:50 -0000

You said in this episode that you wished you heard another viewpoint about the scarcity mindset, after having blamed it all on low self-esteem. Well, here goes.
You used the example of two wedding photography packages, essentially the same, but the $20,000 one having a better "brand story" than the $5000 one. There's something else I'd call what the photographer says to get $20K for a package he knows is worth only $5K: LYING. And the extra $15k is theft. Or at least it feels like it.
That has nothing to do with self-esteem, and everything to do with wanting to be honest and ethical.
I cannot believe you've never heard this argument. In fact, if I didn't know better...

Re: Hillary in bold: Hillvetica typeface goes viral

Rick Wolff — Wed, 15 Apr 2015 18:30:03 -0000

The good people at Monotype, owners of Helvetica, have expressed their preference that I call the final computer font something other than Hillvetica. Though it makes a great hashtag. So look for Hillary Bold, coming soon, open-source.

Re: 5 reasons Hilary Clinton's logo is causing controversy

Rick Wolff — Wed, 15 Apr 2015 09:12:08 -0000

I would be remiss if I did not mention this...

Re: Want to Know What You’re Meant to Do? Listen to Your Ache

Rick Wolff — Sun, 15 Mar 2015 23:51:39 -0000

That ache has been nearly constant for me for years. Everything gives it to me.

Re: When We Stop Believing the Stories We Tell

Rick Wolff — Wed, 11 Mar 2015 13:00:13 -0000

I LOVE telling other people's stories through design and media! I vastly prefer it. I don't have a story, and I don't want one. I push the microphone away, preferring to hold it for someone else.

Re: 039: Why Joining a Mastermind Group Will Benefit You [Podcast]

Rick Wolff — Wed, 21 Jan 2015 18:57:19 -0000

Masterminds feel a little like gated communities, where you've got to be a source of inspiration already in order to show value to the group. But just as universities have "non-Greek" fraternities, with more relaxed standards and less daunting initiations, one could start a "pre-mastermind," a group of budding businesspeople and freelancers who are still trying to figure things out. The rules would be a few prohibitions, like no whining, no gossip. The function would be to groom members up and out, into better mastermind groups. I'd be all over that!

Re: The Evolution Of The Employee

Rick Wolff — Fri, 05 Dec 2014 08:49:00 -0000

Had a salary and benefits / Laid off, works for less

Re: | The Working Artist

Rick Wolff — Mon, 20 Oct 2014 22:00:41 -0000

Here's what stops me.
Things that set out to be regular and periodical scare me. Blogs, diaries, sketchbooks, even a podcast. I start with the best of intentions, do two or three entries, then put it aside. It totally slips my mind. One day, it looks at me accusingly, disappointed, like a Jewish mother whom I never call any more. It nags and nags, till I finally throw away the book, or erase all the entries online. (Whatever a hoarder is, I'm the opposite.) I know self-marketing requires some kind of disciplined habit-making. But I can't seem to shake this cycle.
I have no idea why I'm telling you this.

Re: | The Working Artist

Rick Wolff — Mon, 20 Oct 2014 21:53:15 -0000

Thing is, I'm not sure how advice on how to sell art objects directly, which is what It sounds like your course will be about, will help with my venture, at least at first. Though I'm keeping my ears open.

Re: | The Working Artist

Rick Wolff — Wed, 15 Oct 2014 20:16:51 -0000

I have an idea, a sort of medium.com for fictional storytelling, using HTML5 technology. Each blog post a different story, or part of a series. Guest artists and writers.
I have no idea how to make money from it. Yet.
Not much of a résumé line...

Re: AC Podcast: The Dailies

Rick Wolff — Sun, 14 Sep 2014 09:33:41 -0000

You've established a daily Mount Everest here: I think it would take me two full days to do what you do every day in the periphery of your main billable work! I'm going to start small: just one thing, so I have the experience of forming a useful habit. I've picked writing, particularly blogging. Right now my crowning achievement is the daily ritual of washing dishes.

Re: Why do I have 2 copies of my CC Apps?

Rick Wolff — Mon, 23 Jun 2014 07:32:55 -0000

How about Uninstall buttons in the CC control panel?

Re: Half-heartedly tempting fate

Rick Wolff — Fri, 13 Jun 2014 21:08:33 -0000

This is a lot of things, but "immobile" isn't one of them

Re: Writing Your Story Could Be the Most Important Thing You Ever Do

Rick Wolff — Sun, 20 Apr 2014 23:10:42 -0000

The exploration and exposition I have no problem with... It's the releasing that I won't do. It's none of anyone's business. I won't sacrifice my privacy.

Re: The Difference Between Trying and Doing

Rick Wolff — Sun, 12 Jan 2014 20:28:50 -0000

When a hypnotist (or at least Derren Brown, who explained the technique) convinces subjects that their arms are too heavy to lift, the word "try" is INTEGRAL to the suggestion, and repeated: "You try and try, but no matter how hard you try…" And to conclude, he says, "At the count of three, you'll find you're able to lift your arms with ease."

Re: What are you worth?

Rick Wolff — Thu, 09 Jan 2014 11:09:26 -0000

Economics being what it is, the upward pressure of what we think we're worth is always tempered by what the market will bear. There's nothing I'll ever do in two minutes that will be worth $5000. Because I'm not Picasso.

Re: Missing pieces: Why you don’t feel grateful

Rick Wolff — Thu, 28 Nov 2013 11:09:34 -0000

Know what helped me think about gratitude? Counting the number of times people thanked me for doing what I do throughout the year. This year I realized I shoo it away and minimize it, by habit. But it's starting to pile up for me.
Also... this goes back to the meaning of silence. One day, silence is the default, and we pattern-seeking people can't interpret anything from it. The next day, we voice something in common, and now the silence "sounds" like stubbornness. When it could just as easily be obliviousness. Or just enjoyment from the sidelines. Or any of a number of things I can't think of.

Re: Dress My Age? Hell No, Say These Inspiring Senior Women

Rick Wolff — Sun, 24 Nov 2013 15:49:15 -0000

I'd like to see the male equivalent of this. I'd like to BE IN the male equivalent of this.

Re: iLightBox · Revolutionary Lightbox

Rick Wolff — Sat, 10 Aug 2013 08:50:46 -0000

The navbar on your demo page does not work on an iPad.

Re: Sponsored Post – There Are No Cubicles

Rick Wolff — Thu, 25 Jul 2013 13:11:23 -0000

I shouldn't admit this, but I'm WAY, WAY more productive in a cubicle, supervised, than I am at home alone.

Re: Introducing: FreshBooks’ first book, Breaking The Time Barrier

Rick Wolff — Wed, 03 Jul 2013 11:48:23 -0000

My point is, at age 55, a life-long employee whom no one will hire now, I've got no time to get an MBA. I'd like to position myself as a designer the biz-dev types can go to to follow through on design when that solution is called for. Those are my ideal clients. That really crystalized once I realized I could stop following "Karen" literally.

Re: Psychology of Information Technology

Rick Wolff — Wed, 03 Jul 2013 11:36:14 -0000

So I do a little exploring. I search in Google Images.
(1) USB logo. I get the little familiar icon.
(2) Psy. I gasp! Who's this guy? Oh yeah, him.
(3) Psi. Ah, that's more like it.