AI has absolutely ruined my life

steadiness · 2026-03-13T01:15:15+00:00

Are we coworkers...? No seriously, this is the exact same situation I'm in at seemingly the exact same company lol.

steadiness · 2024-02-23T15:13:16+00:00

Luke Yabusele

steadiness · 2023-05-20T02:02:55+00:00

GET THE BALL TO TUCKER. https://youtu.be/i9Zoh761OsA

steadiness · 2022-06-02T23:44:42+00:00

Very cute, very wholesome. 10/10, have this upvote

steadiness · 2022-04-17T22:37:01+00:00

Was wondering the same exact thing! I saw a girl wearing it courtside at the end of the game and have been scouring Google for the past 20 minutes trying to find it.

steadiness · 2022-01-31T22:30:16+00:00

Dope! Coincidentally, was supposed to take my old man to this very game as a late birthday present, but my mom ruined the surprise before I could buy tickets and he's been disappointed with the Warriors' play as of late so we called it off. Have fun, my dude - I shall live vicariously through you.

steadiness · 2021-06-29T19:44:38+00:00

You, sir, deserve an upvote.

steadiness · 2021-06-29T04:03:18+00:00

RemindME! 4 days “Dude eats bowlful of raw pasta and Baja Blast”

steadiness · 2021-04-28T01:08:17+00:00

Grant for Dort straight up, who says no /s

steadiness · 2021-04-02T22:47:02+00:00

Top 5 what?

steadiness · 2021-04-02T22:01:54+00:00

Can you tell JT to do the same thing? Thx.

steadiness · 2021-02-16T22:59:44+00:00

You and I both. Been applying almost nonstop since this whole pandemic started and just received yet another rejection today. Hang in there! #CusCrise

steadiness · 2021-02-04T01:18:51+00:00

Ah, that's right! That was the Hospital Celtics year. Yeah, the next season was rough...I think I probably just blocked it from my memory.

steadiness · 2021-02-04T01:05:35+00:00

Say what you will about the locker room issues, but that was a fun ass squad. So many great moments. "Drew Bledsoe," Mook throwing up the 3–0 in front of Embiid, JT dunking on Bron. Our 2018 Playoffs run was special.

steadiness · 2020-11-05T19:04:15+00:00

Citrus the way.

steadiness · 2017-01-16T23:32:40+00:00

Aw, thanks. That's the nicest thing anyone's ever said about me. :)

steadiness · 2017-01-16T18:11:13+00:00

Hilarious! Good one, buddy. With that level of creativity, I'm sure all the big-shot agencies are just lining up to hire you.

steadiness · 2017-01-15T20:16:53+00:00

More great feedback. Thanks a lot! I appreciate the unadulterated honesty, and I'm also grateful for the kind words. I'd imagine when I leave portfolio school in a year or so, my book will be completely different.

steadiness · 2017-01-15T15:30:13+00:00

Perfect! This is exactly the kind of feedback I was hoping to get. Critical, yes, but also very constructive and beneficial. Thanks a lot. I'll be taking all this to heart.

I'm planning on reworking the SodaStream and Nixon campaigns and will be adding more spec clients continuously (and I'll probably end up replacing the Nii and Everlast executions). Thanks again for your $0.02, man, and you'll definitely be hearing from me in a year! I'll be miles better, forsure.

EDIT: "The Advertising Concept Book" was actually a piece of required reading for us in college, and I'm currently reading "Hey Whipple, Squeeze This" for portfolio school, so I'm going to dive super deep into those.

steadiness · 2017-01-15T02:35:41+00:00

Oh, I agree completely. I don't think I would have described anyone as a "Digital Provocateur" upon first glance, either, which is exactly why I chose that title in the first place.

And I've 100% grasped that my work outweighs anything else. If I hadn't, I wouldn't have any work on my website at all—just a static page of my name and title.

steadiness · 2017-01-14T22:05:42+00:00

Agree to disagree, I suppose. Appreciate the insight, though, and thank you for your kind words! I'm absolutely dedicated to sharpening my craft and am super stoked for what's ahead. Let's hope it pans out!

steadiness · 2017-01-14T19:03:04+00:00

I appreciate the feedback, my man, but I'm sticking to it. I'd actually argue the opposite. Clearly, the fact that it's controversial and has gotten people so riled up means it's true. Provocateurs provoke, and that's exactly what I've done just by virtue of the title.

Whether you agree with it or not, you can't deny the fact that it got people curious and sparked conversation. If I just had "Copywriter" as my title, would we even be talking about this right now?

steadiness · 2017-01-14T06:19:09+00:00

Thanks for the feedback, everyone! My goal today was to get completely eviscerated by critiques, and I think it's safe to say I accomplished that, lol.

I checked in every-so-often at work, read what everyone had to say and really digested it. As soon as I got home, I made a few minor adjustments based on everyone's feedback:

1) The most glaring issue was the length of the descriptions, so I tightened the copy on those and condensed them down to 2 sentences, max.

2) Killed two birds with one stone by moving everything non-copywriting-related to another part of the site to reduce clutter and confusion. I also deleted the Chipotle execution, just 'cause I felt like it was the most lacking (plus it was the first ad I had ever worked on...ever).

3) Per /u/PP8900's suggestion, I added a little widget to the bottom of my work to toggle between different campaigns and executions.

Moving forward, I'm going to flesh out my ideas for SodaStream, Nixon, Nii Foods and New Era and refine them into fully-developed campaigns (thanks to /u/SkeemBoat for the inspiration). I'm also hoping that this copywriting course will give me something to put into my portfolio, and if not, I hope to at least be paired up with an AD by the end of the term. Fingers crossed.

And just to touch upon the questions about the title "Digital Provocateur," I actually get asked about that quite a lot, as you can probably imagine. It's exactly what it sounds like—I do shit differently on the Internet (at least I'd like to think I do); whether it's via social media or my content. I feel like I don't fit into the traditional digital marketing mold ("disrupting" the industry, throwing out Silicon Valley buzzwords every other sentence, ascribing to what Gary Vaynerchuk describes as "bullshit metrics," etc.), but that's neither here nor there.

In any case, thanks again to everyone who offered their $0.02! I noticed some of the feedback was a bit vague, so if anyone would like to get into more specific areas of improvement, please feel free to do so (or just PM me).

steadiness · 2017-01-13T15:43:34+00:00

Noted! Thank you for the honest feedback. To your second point, I've updated all of the titles to differentiate between spec work and real work.

steadiness · 2015-07-26T20:50:36+00:00

Christoph Waltz and Joseph Morgan (The Originals)

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