Arnold on success

There’s a few things my brother is responsible for:

  • my love for buffalo wings
  • my love for house/trance music
  • my love of the not Leo guy’s clothes in Inception
  • my love of Hawaiian sweet rolls
  • my love of Arnold™

To that last point, I came across this lil’ number with nothing but a 4 year old’s sense of joy. Make fun of the motivation as much as you want, giggle at the simplicity and cheesiness. But you gotta dumb down to get big, boys.

Aaron Draplin on being an approachable designer

“When I met designers and graphic designers and artists and artisans and, sort of, like, these cultural elites, it was this instantaneous, like, ‘Oh my god, I can’t even hang with these people…’ You got this sense of, like, you couldn’t hang with these people. So that’s always scared me about building some life in design. I don’t ever want to be unapproachable.”

Aaron Draplin

Advice on buying your next domain name

Notes from this comment for myself you may find helpful.


  • Start with www.buydomains.com… They have a MASSIVE database of domains for sale.
  • Before you pull the trigger on trying to buy the name (and, no, this isn’t legal advice) I highly recommend you take a quick visit to www.uspto.gov and do a trademark search for the name you’re thinking of.
  • You should also do a Google search with the name within quotes (exact match) to see what sorts of pages online are using that term and why.
  • Never use hyphens and avoid numbers if possible.
  • Type a possible name into your address bar (without going to it) just to see how it looks and feels. (more…)