It’s late; I need to figure out a way to get these emails out before stupid o’clock. You know what doesn’t help? GODDAMN DAYLIGHT SAVING TIME THAT’S WHAT. Despite evidence clearly showing that daylight saving kills or maims or just really pisses off a huge number of people every year, we persist in the monumental folly of meddling with time. And it’s even worse with kids, because they don’t understand why they have to get up and go to bed an hour earlier and it is apparently bad form to give them coffee. “Oh, but it’s so nice to have that extra sunlight in the evening!” Yeah, it is, and that would have happened anyway, thanks to the axial inclination of the earth and the sun’s gravitational pull. I hate daylight saving and I will spend the next few months furious about it until time returns to its rightful course.

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Challenge Day 1 (of 30)

Ahem

Here are the remaining revenue plans/ideas I have.

7. Art classes/drink&draw sessions etc
   I am good enough at art to know I’m not and never will be top-tier, but I’m also well aware that I have more draughtmanship than the average schmo. If those that can’t, teach, then surely those that can (a bit) would be better at it? Also, I enjoy the science of drawing, and I like teaching people. Some drawing classes or maybe putting on a few of those drink-and-draw sessions could help keep the wolf from the door. I was thinking of starting up an online cohort of folks who’d like to pick up some drawing skill; email me if you’re keen – josh@tworuru.com
   
8. Teaching teachers how to draw
   You know who mostly can’t draw, at all? Teachers! To me, this is mind-blowing; it’s like if someone dropped a casual “Oh, I can’t add” or “Hah, yeah, I never learned to read!” in conversation. It’s not just arty-farty; the ability to sketch or diagram is a vital skill for any number of STEM-ish careers and a lot of kids aren’t being taught how to do it, because their parents or teachers didn’t know how. So I’m putting together a little professional development course for primary and intermediate teachers in NZ. The idea is just to teach the basics, to get teachers to the point where they’re “better” than the kids (children have a pointedly unsophisticated view of drawing; if you can do realism, you’re amazing) and they can take it or leave it from there. I’ve been at it for a while now and have a pilot school signed up ready to go. If you’re a teacher or principal or aligned such, ping me on josh@tworuru.com
   
9. Investment/crowdfunding
   I think a few of my business plans – those I’ve detailed here and others – have legs, shapely business legs that might actually provide a return on investment. To that end, I am interested in hearing from anyone who might be interested in investing, or can simply tell me how to talk to potential investors without falling flat on my face. I also think there’s some crowdfunding potential for painting series – for example painting along with every Bob Ross episode – that might be worth looking into. If any of that is something you know about, josh@tworuru.com will find me.
   
10. A day job. I am not proud. I’m aware that the spool-up-your-own business biz may not work out, despite my best efforts — and you’d best believe I am giving it my best effort — and I’m more than happy to take on another normal-er job. On the bright side, the deeply stupid AI bubble should be bursting soon, so people might start hiring humans with a comms and marketing skillset again. On the dark side, the bursting may reap pure economic chaos, so who knows, maybe I’m better off trying to convince people to buy my stickers.

Your ideas. Give them to me.

I have more ideas, but that’ll do for now. Is there anything you reckon I’ve missed? Hit the reply button or snap an email off to josh@tworuru.com and let me know.

Also your money

The big red button lies below. Do you click it, helping me hit my $1k a month newsletter goal, or do you let it languish, curious to see if I can keep up daily emails for more than two days running?

A bit of transparency is in order here. I currently bring in about (it varies, for various reasons) $400 a month from this newsletter. That may surprise you; perhaps it sounds like a lot, perhaps it sounds like very little. Either way, I’d love to get it up to $1000, a hefty 10 percent of my revenue goal.

Tomorrow — bright and early tomorrow, not at what is apparently 10:45 PM but is actually 9:45 PM and you cannot convince me otherwise — I will send out a calendar of all the biz stuff I’m going to do or try to do for the next 28 days. There may, and this is fair warning, also be a spreadsheet. I hope you are ready.