November 18, 2025

Just feed me

In a restaurant where the menu is delicious and extensive, choosing which few dishes (and how much) to order can be difficult. While ‘the market’ will generally say, ‘more choice is a positive’, sometimes, the paradox of choice kicks in and we need another way to decide.

This is where ‘just feed me’ or ‘chef’s recommendation/banquet’ options shine. For a little bit more than what you would pay for each dish individually, we can outsource the selection to someone who knows better than we do; someone who’ll get the flavour combinations and the portion sizes correct so we, the diner, can sit back, relax, and enjoy whatever comes to us.

As an illustration business, I could offer limitless customisations and personalisation to the work I make and who I make it for. An enormous selection of prints & products so that, no matter what you need, I have something for you. Or, I could limit the options I offer; provide an ‘artist’s banquet’ because maybe, just maybe, someone will pay me because I’m only offering them what’s worth buying.

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Brahm’s first symphony is an anomaly

If it’s rare for the first thing that anyone makes to be the greatest of all time, then do we have no other choice but to keep making?

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No one remembers Mike

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A new year reflection not resolution

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Procrastination or rest?

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