Nobody Actually Cares About Your Failures
It's not that serious.
First off, thank you for all the support on my first proper art NFT project Formidia. I was surprised to see some holders already making their own lore around some of the pieces. I wasn’t expecting that, and it’s fun to see.
One piece is still available (the animated version here), and it’s going on auction starting Tuesday afternoon. As soon as it hits the reserve price (~$50), the auction will be open for 24 hours. I can’t give you an exact time the auction will end, as that depends on the time of the first bid, but I anticipate the auction will end this Wednesday night.
Second off, I want to say nobody cares about your mistakes. The funny thing is, I ran into a major issue about 5 minutes before the Formidia collection went up for sale.
To start the sale, I had to pay some Ethereum as a gas fee. I didn’t know that, and I didn’t have any Ethereum in my wallet. I was scrambling to find the funds to list the NFTs and start the sale I had been hyping up for over a week.
For a minute, I thought I had fumbled the entire launch. Then, when I finally got my Ethereum in my wallet, I accidentally listed the 10th, animated NFT for $50, which I did NOT mean to do.
Once I fixed the listings, I didn’t get any messages about the fumble. I don’t think anybody noticed. But to me, it was almost a catastrophic failure on my first proper NFT launch.
People simply don’t think about your failures. They’re too focused on their own.
Another example of supposed mistakes or failures is social media posts that don’t get the engagement you expected. Recently, I’ve truly embraced the idea of test and learn with no judgement of yourself based on outcome.
If your video flops, good. Your message didn’t properly transfer from the perfect idea in your head to the eyes and ears of your audience. Change something about the video and post it again.
If you’re worried people don’t want to see the same video repeatedly on your profile, I don’t think that’s a reasonable worry. Only a tiny percentage of your followers saw it in the first place. Try it again.
And by the way, if someone constantly brings up your failures, they’re just projecting their insecurities and worries onto you.
And third, I realize the newsletters hadn’t included many tangible takeaways on cutting-edge technology recently. Most of the latest editions have been about my NFT art launch. I don’t want this newsletter to be all about my NFT projects. Since the drop is almost over, we’ll get back to thoughtful information that’s helpful in your day-to-day life shortly.
On the contrary, expect the newsletter to be the first to hear of future drops. But yes, we’ll get back to the cutting-edge tech stuff. Lol.
Expect to get another newsletter in your inbox Wednesday at 7am EST. It will be a step-by-step tutorial on how to make AI art using Midjourney, plus a few tips I wish I knew earlier.
For reference, Midjourney is the tool I used to make the Formidia art project and many images we post on the ONE37pm accounts.
So once again, thank you for all the support on Formidia. It was fun on launch day and every day since.
Expect to see the Midjourney tutorial in your inbox Wednesday morning, along with one final reminder that the last piece of Formidia will be up for auction Wednesday morning.