Ryan Harrell

“Volume negates luck” -Alex Hormozi

Turning off, the comments was probably a good idea on this one. 😂

Things that blow my mind now that I’m old: how fast the day goes by.

A cat that wishes to be a lion must first lose their appetite for rats.

You can’t blame WNBA players for not knowing how fans act during games, they are really new to having fans. And if I ever go to a major sporting event and anyone points their finger, you better believe I am going to give them a piece of my mind. This is America, we cant be out here pointing…

Canadians, are y’all staying up north or moving south when you’re annexed? Serious question.

Why are none of the bots on X concerned with the absolute gouging these colleges have been doing for the past 30 years?

There’s a lot of talk about some of the hits that happened this weekend. I’m just gonna say a lot of these hits would’ve had a freshman carrying your shoulder pads after the game if this was the early to mid 90s, but we aren’t in that time anymore. Maybe if we would’ve felt the way we do about the player’s safety back then Alvin Mack would’ve made it to the pros.  It’s been 33 years since Alvin tore up his leg against Iowa. It would’ve been great to see Mack out there on the field. To the ones who say Mack had it coming, I hope your 7-Brew is cold next time.

How come the students are stuck holding the bag, but the colleges got paid either way? They sold people on a better future. Where’s their accountability when that education didn’t deliver what they were selling? They gouged for years and now some of them sit on endowment funds that are among of the largest in the world.

One of the best lessons I ever learned about creative work ended with, “It’s just a fucking apple.” When I was a young designer in 2004ish, I used to say shit like, “If you’re only doing this for the money, you don’t really care about design.” I’d get frustrated when a customer wanted something I didn’t think was cool. Something that wasn’t what the design world considered good work. I was winning awards, and somewhere along the way, I started thinking my taste mattered more than what the person paying me actually wanted. Then my chief marketing officer checked me. “If you really feel that way, why don’t you work for free? You can do whatever you want, and I won’t pay you. Then you’ll know you’re doing it strictly for the love of the game.” Well, when you put it like that… 😂 He told me that if a project wasn’t something I wanted in my portfolio, I didn’t have to put it there. But that didn’t mean it wasn’t worth doing, or that the customer didn’t deserve good work. Then he gave me an example. “If I sit five designers around a table and put an apple in the middle, I’ll get five different explanations of what it is. One will say it represents the temptation of Eve. Another will say it symbolizes life. Everybody will have some deep interpretation. “But you know what it is? It’s just a fucking apple.” I needed to hear that. I had confused having artistic standards with believing everything had to satisfy my own artistic ego. That doesn’t mean you stop giving advice or stop caring about quality. Your experience is part of what the customer is paying for. But there’s a difference between helping someone make their idea better and making them feel stupid because it isn’t the idea you would have chosen. That lesson has stuck with me from design into the tattoo industry and business in general. Not every project has to win an award or become the centerpiece of your portfolio. Sometimes you just need to listen, do a damn good job, give the customer something they’re happy with, and get paid. You can love the work and make a living doing it. Those things aren’t enemies. And sometimes, an apple is just a fucking apple.

insane work.

AI doesn't always turn a 5-person company into a 2-person company. It could turn a 5-person company into a company capable of doing what previously required 10 people. That's another way to looking at what's happening.

So the Iranian President and Trump were both at the UN meeting and they didn’t even throw hands? I am thinking Trump/Rubio against the Iranian President/their Supreme Leader should have been a tag team cage match on PPV, winner gets the PPV royalties to pay down the debt because it would have killed!

Canada: we will never be the 51st state, why would we want to be a part of the largest richest country on earth?! Also Canada: omg yes we would love to join your failing EU!

This dude can do the funniest thing in his will…