Biz book; Google Art; Escher drawings; Readwise

A business book that will change your angle. Learn artistic styles in Google. Escher, the math drawer. Readwise Reader.

Business

Anything You Want

Derek wrote a book about his experience running his business CDBaby. This book shows an unconventional way of creating a business. He was customer-driven and more loyal to his customers than to making money. That gave him an edge on how to create value thinking from an angle that a normal business person wouldn’t be able to.

His formula was to give away for free things that he already built for himself (by-products). If the freebie would cost him and many people wanted it, then he would start charging a small fee for it. That’s how he ended up building several successful business. It is like the freemium model. For example he built CDBaby, an online store, to sell his indie music. Then his friends wanted also to sell their music, so he charged a small fee. That turned into a multi-million dollar business.

Science, Programming & Design

Google’s Art and Culture

Browse artistic style trends. It is useful to know about styles when you write a prompt AI designers such as Dall-E, MidJourney and Stable Diffusion.

M.C. Escher drawings

Escher was a dutch artist who drew mathematical shapes and patterns. His style trend matches the one from the German Dürer.

The Cultural Tutor @culturaltutor

Why did M.C. Escher draw this impossible world in 1953?

I used to doodle so much inspired by Escher and Dürer. Here is an example although not mathematical.

Misc

Readwise Reader

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Thought about having children

Louie Bacaj @LBacaj

Long before I had kids, working in the restaurant, a customer used to say: "When you're dead and gone, Louie, the only trace you ever existed will be your children. Everything else will be forgotten in time. That's why the most important work you'll ever do is raise children."

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