One of the great things about working for myself is all the control I have over where my work comes from and what leads I choose to pursue. All of the work I’m doing right now comes from acquaintances and referrals. I have an RSS feed from some popular job boards, but I’ve responded to less than 1% of all the listings I’ve seen over the last 10 months. I keep a Craigslist feed in my RSS reader mostly for comic value.

Craigslist is one of the phenomenons of internet publishing in recent memory. They’re part of what’s putting newspapers on their heels by providing classified ads for free or a minimal charge, an area where most newspapers make their money. But that’s a separate discussion. Continue reading »

I don’t have a business plan (GASP!). I don’t have a mission statement either. A few weeks ago, a friend of mine strongly advised me to write a business plan and to come up with a mission statement, explaining how a mission statement is so beneficial to doing business and growing your business.

How’s this for a mission statement?

The Company’s primary objective is to maximize long-term stockholder value, while adhering to the laws of the jurisdictions in which it operates and at all times observing the highest ethical standards.

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They are two of the best (and my favorite) tango dancers and instructors ever and are wonderful performers.

I drew this on the same night I drew the Naked Tree… very late at night or very early in the morning, depending on how you look at it. I finished this drawing at 4:30AM and went to bed somewhere around 5:30AM.

I hadn’t the slightest idea why this isn’t all over the news. It’s about god damned time. No apologies.

I started this one at about 1:30AM last night. Sometimes I don’t sleep just for the hell of it. On those nights, I try to focus on producing work: another direction for a design, another part of an application, or another drawing. Rarely is any of it client work unless there’s a deadline looming the next day.