If you don't know her, Dani Donovan is an artist who makes these great ADHD comics. You've probably seen her comics even if you don't know her name:
These are just a few of my favorites, but there are a TON more on her website and Instagram. She's also the one behind the Anti-Planner workbook, if you've heard of that.
Yesterday, she sent out an email to her mailing list explaining that her business is really struggling:
I've been going back and forth on whether to say this. But authentic honesty is my whole thing, so here goes.
I'm fucking exhausted, dude. I've been putting out fires for a Very Long Time and keep getting hit back down before I can fully stand back up.
I've got a link at the bottom of this email to a blog post with way more details about wtf has been happening with my business. (I've held a lot back over the last 2 years.) [here is the blog post]
The reason it's so scary is that admitting everything that's gone wrong behind the scenes is vulnerable and I feel like a pretty massive failure.
TL;DR is I've had to downsize my team from 7 people to just me and my husband, which is making things wayyyy harder. My business is in a really scary spot right now.
Given all that, my upcoming launches are about to be the make-or-break moments for my company. And I'm so nervous I won't be able to pull it off in time.
But over the last year, I've had tons of awesome people like you tell me in supportive DMs, emails, and IRL:
"When you need help, put out the bat signal—your people will show up."
So, uh…
Your support right now will genuinely make a difference. A ticket, a share, or just forwarding this to one friend who might really like this upcoming launch.
If it's not the right time or it's just not for you—I completely get it. Shit is rough all around these days, and I 1000% get it.
Your existing support already means more than I can say. 💖
I don't know Dani personally or anything, I'm just an ADHDer who's been a fan of her comics for years and enjoys her blog posts. From the blog post about her business, she's in a rough spot and I thought Tumblr would want to know. She has the Anti-Planner, posters of her comics, and a bunch of other different neurodiversity-related merch available at her store here. I just grabbed two of my favorite posters I've wanted forever and some stickers.
300+ hand-illustrated pages by award-winning ADHD creator Dani Donovan. 100K+ sold. Activity book, PDF bundles, card decks, and merch for AD
She's also holding an online event, a 2-hour “How to Get Sh*t Done When You Don't Feel Like It” Masterclass + Workshop, which you can learn more about/register for here. (this is also linked in the quoted email I copy/pasted above). I think it comes with some Anti-Planner merch as well? It sounds really helpful for all of us neurodiverse folks.
A live 2-hour masterclass from Anti-Planner creator Dani Donovan, 27 activity PDFs, and the full framework for getting unstuck. Grab your se
Anyway, just wanted to share in case others have been looking at her merch like me, or for folks interested in webinars - now is the time! Please reblog/signal boost if you'd like!
I'm gonna say it, I do think that even the laziest person imaginable should have a roof over their head, food in their stomach, and access to healthcare
wow dude jts so awesome that your car is loud as fuck and smells worse when it drives past. thags fucking epic man. i really like how it hurts to listen to you drive past and it scares people. thats awesome man. i really like your car that makes a loud as fuck fart sound. fucking epic dude
when i was a kid i decided that killing people was bad therefore war was bad therefore the military was evil. and adults would tell me it's more nuanced than that and i would understand when i grew up. well i'm a grown up now and idk i still think that killing people is bad and war is bad and the military is evil
"You'll be left behind if you don't get onboard with AI!" okay let's assume for a second that AI is The Future or whatever. Let's assume that it will be the cornerstone of all future work. Let's assume that, like the investment guys floating on the surface of the bubble are desperate to have us believe, It Is Inevitable. Frankly I still don't think I'd lose much by ignoring it until that day comes. Like I simply do not believe that prompt engineering could take all that long to learn. Call me naive but I think that if AI became critical for my life tomorrow, somebody telling me how to access chatGPT (I imagine they've got a website or an app or something?) and being like "Remember how you used to use google when it still actually worked? Start there" would be enough. I think I could figure it out in like an hour, tops, by fucking around with the site and maybe looking up some tips on reddit. So like. Even if "AI is the future" did somehow magically turn out to be true, I don't see how that affects me at all right now or why anybody bothers saying so. "AI is the future, if you were smart you'd be using it!" no I wouldn't. It still wouldn't be a skill that's worth my time to learn yet. Pointless addition to the discussion. Maybe I'm dunning-krugered or something but I simply do not think that it would be difficult enough that I would need to start practicing right now or I'm missing out on something.
"You'll need AI in a decade so you should get familiar with it now!" I think if you start getting familiar with it now, and I start getting familiar with it in a decade, we're going to end up at the same proficiency pretty quickly. Doesn't seem like the kind of skill where "X years of experience" is relevant. I don't think that's a skill gap that would be hard to close.
You cannot simultaneously have a "it's easy for everyone to learn! Impossible to fuck up!" pitch and a "you MUST learn how to use it RIGHT NOW" pitch for the same product and expect to get taken seriously
As much as I want to support ethical farming practices I will be buying the cheapest bag of frozen chicken thighs as much as the next frugal/poor person which is why animal welfare needs to be legislated, not left up to the invisible hand of the free market or some bullshit. Invisible hand of the free market finds itself around a lot of throats.
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