Log #10: A wild artist appeared
Basically all of my project time this week went on putting together a newsletter. I’m still roughly sticking to my self-imposed 10-hour limit for creating one – I didn’t track it that closely this week though. If I have more to say and run out of time, it’s tough – drop it and move on. It seemed to get a good response in the first couple of days, so that’s promising. I’m pretty happy with it.
On the info product side of things, there was no progress on the content. I just ran out of project time.
The artist finally delivered the image for the cover at the start of the week. It’s fine. The final revision was definitely better than the last one. But I’m not sure if I’ll ultimately use it or not. I haven’t had the itch to continue working with the artist, so that suggests I’m not happy enough with the image to commission more.
Despite the wait last week, I still gave the artist five stars across the board. Interestingly Fiverr sends you a private review questionnaire a few days after you’ve paid, so I guess that’s how they try and combat inflated public reviews – ‘What did you really think? We won’t tell them, it’s a secret between us.’
I thought about finding a new artist to work with, but OpenAI released 4o image generation earlier this week and I saw impressive images all over the internet along with some scathing hate for AI-generated images (which I understand). It’s so popular that it’s apparently melting their GPUs. If it’s as good as it looks, it might be good enough for generating bits of art for the cover. I don’t have ChatGPT Plus or whatever it is, but I might subscribe and try it out.
It’s April in a couple of days (time has flown over the last couple of months), so I have four weeks to hit my self-imposed deadline for the info product. I’m not confident I’ll hit it – not at my current pace. The problem with self-imposed deadlines is that you can quite easily just push them back. I’ve seen some people make deals with friends to pay $100 or whatever if they don’t hit their deadline, but I’m not even sure that would help here. I’m not going to push it back preemtively.
On the chair saga, Haworth said “You can expect the delivery by upcoming week.”, which simutaneously means before the upcoming week and by the end of the upcoming week thanks to the broken English. Since I haven’t even received shipping confirmation yet, it’s definitely not the former. Honestly a poor experience.
What’s next
- Focus on the info product’s content.
- Try 4o image generation for the front cover.