Bob Lefsetz on lessons learned from Louie C.K. ⇢

austinkleon:

Really great list. Some excerpts:

…No one arrives instantly formed…

…It’s easy to be famous. It’s hard to have fans…

…Publicity is a byproduct, it comes after the fact…

…You just do the work, you never know what will happen…

…A good marketing plan is irrelevant if the product sucks…

…A great artist doesn’t repeat what someone else has already done but tweaks it, improves it, makes it his own…

Read the whole thing

Hero.

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    I’d add: “You don’t do this by yelling at them, but by creating work they value.” Great article, go read it
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