Over the past decade, roughly $1.02M in my design proposals didn't become projects. Not because the clients weren't great or I didn't want the work. In every one of those conversations, I did the same thing: I consulted honestly and recommended...

I got a mullet yesterday. Is it cool? Hard to say. Is it me? Entirely. My brother cut it. I described what I wanted and we went for it, without polling my audience, checking trend reports, or consulting the internet to see...