📰 Friday, May 29, 2026 — 7:29 a.m.
Today I feel tired.
What the fuck?
LOL.
Coffee is brewing.
I’m watching an interview with Rico Verhoeven talking about Oleksandr Usyk after the heavyweight fight this past weekend.
The prompt asks:
How do you build loyal subscribers?
Honestly?
I have no idea.
I really don’t.
I’ve thought about it before.
Probably too much.
How do you get people to stay?
How do you get people to care?
How do you build an audience?
The truth is, I don’t know.
So I decided to do the only thing I know how to do.
Express what I think.
Write what I see.
Draw what catches my attention.
And keep going.
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As time passes, I’ll adjust.
I’ll improve.
I’ll probably add more sketches.
More illustrations.
Maybe even more animation.
That’s what I enjoy.
That’s what feels natural.
The problem is that life gets in the way sometimes.
I’m a delivery driver.
Bills exist.
Responsibilities exist.
Time is limited.
But little by little, I’m trying to build something.
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The funny thing is that I sometimes focus so much on the subscribers I don’t have that I forget about the ones I do.
And that’s a mistake.
Because if somebody takes time out of their day to read something I wrote, that’s actually pretty incredible.
Think about it.
Out of everything they could be doing, they decided to spend a few minutes listening to a stranger’s thoughts.
That’s not nothing.
That’s something.
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I think the real lesson might be gratitude.
Not because gratitude magically solves everything.
But because wanting to be liked can make you forget what’s already there.
If ten people read.
Be grateful for ten.
If one person reads.
Be grateful for one.
Because somebody took the time.
And that’s pretty cool when you think about it.
Thank you.
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