Stephen Walker – Opinionated Ad Man, Writer and Author

  • No April fools day shenanigans.

    I mean I was going to post an elaborate tale about me quitting writing. Taking up bare knuckle boxing and crossing it with belly dancing but hey… There’s always next year.What am going to say though is this:You are loved.You matter.You deserve to be treated equally.The world is up it’s own ass lately and there’s…

  • Why showing up (even when you doubt) is your greatest advantage

    On the 24th of March a lone developer by the name of Tyler (TVGS) launched a viral hit of a game. Something he thought would’ve been a meme of a launch right off the bat… As of yesterday the peak all time player count was sitting around 414,166. (And this might not interest you but…

  • I think I’ve done it!

    I’ve tweaked the audio software and now things sound crisp.(I just need to find a chair that doesn’t squeak cause you can hear it once haha)So I’ll be doing more of a structured audio rant/podcast/tape type of thing and I might just release every Sunday…I love to write and you can probably tell that I…

  • Suck on these Ghiblits

    Are the exact words I’d imagine Hayao Miyazaki would’ve used if he was super fluent in English, to shit on the tech bros who have ripped his style and took a punt at his creative legacy… I mean social media has been plagued with all of these images the last few days and if you’re…

  • Tired of Feeling Stuck? Here’s the Fastest Way to Get Unstuck…

    I’ve been on an Albert Camus binge again. His philosophy centres on absurdism, the idea that life has no inherent meaning, and our search for meaning often clashes with the silent, indifferent universe and when you look at it from just that lens. Damn that is some bleak shit. But instead of letting the despair…

  • I like Adam Nevill and I think you will too…

    And as with anything. The theft-y Mctheft of artist works seem to be getting worse as the days go on… You can read the full article here, especially if you care for creative work. That being said. A chap named Adam Nevill wrote this yesterday and I have automatically become a fan because this is…

  • Kick it to the curb

    What’s that you may ask? Kicking what to the curb? Fear of judgement, that’s what. If you look around online or even offline in person. People are scared shitless to do anything because they’re scared of being judged by their peers. And yes. It’s natural. No matter how confident and good you are at something…

  • Saratoga Spring Water ‘n You?

    The latest internet memesation is taking off. Jacked up ex footballer turned life coach-guru-sauce Ashton Hall has the internet losing its shit over his morning routine. The dude is out there taping his mouth shut like he’s prepping for a silent film audition. I mean I guess Charlie Chaplin would be kind proud? But he’s…

  • it’s your time to shine

    Not everything you do is going to be an absolute banger straight off the bat. I mean if it was then damn, you’d be rollin’ in the money and popularity and all the status you could ever dream of… The only thing you’ve got control of is showing up daily. Systems are gonna fail, algorithms…

  • Here’s the engine that drives quality

    Quantity is the goddamn engine that drives quality. Michelangelo wasn’t born with the gift of perfect carving… No. He learned to do that. He cut, he hacked, he made sloppy, half baked messes until… …until he started making something worth looking at. I love answering questions about the craft of writing and pretty much everything…

  • Curious idiot

    but I’m considered a genius cause I always look at the smarter folks and apply what they share in my life. It doesn’t always work out. Sometimes it backfires like shit and well, you gotta roll with what happens. Well. I was asked today by a long time subscriber of my shenanigans: “How do you…

  • The Egg-pocalypse

    So, you thought the egg prices were through the roof? Think again. The cost of a dozen eggs has plummeted from $8.05 to $4.15. Yeah, that’s a whopping 93% decrease. The media, which was once screaming about the sky high prices, has gone radio silent. Why? Because when the narrative doesn’t fit the agenda, the…

  • Audio tapes

    So I needed a new microphone cause I’ve been wanting to do some audio/video type work. And I usually find I end up talking to myself. So if I can transcribe what I’ve said it’ll speed up and amplify my word count by 3x. I’ve also toyed with the idea of doing a sort of audio tape…

  • Cats and Fight Club

    So a friend of mine is away for a week and I’m tasked with looking after their cats. Well. I need to make sure they haven’t killed each other and have at least eaten something that is actual food and not furniture… (cause guess whose cats like to eat couches and dry wall?) Anywho So…

  • Want to change the world? Stop keying Teslas and start sending daily emails

    I love Twitter. Every time I open the app or the site. I see someone crying about Elon Musk and Tesla and they are telling people to stick it to “them” by destroying those weird ass looking cars. And if you’re reading this and you’re one of those “If I could key a Tesla I…

  • It’s happening…

    I’m on a live call with someone I respect in the coaching world. Now I’m no coach at all, but having a coach in my corner changed my life. The one thing I love about this live is the fact that the is exposing the whole coaching industry for what it is. Complexity and the…

  • Tom did what anyone in that position would have done

    Platforms are killing themselves. Which is great news for us old fashioned creatives. I’m sure you all remember how cool MySpace was. We could make our page our own. Code it all pretty and even have our favourite tunes playing when someone viewed our page. And even though Tom did what anyone in that position…

  • Thou shalt rest

    I sometimes think that the brain is a factory. Which is good and bad at the same time. Factories have to always be on to be productive and profitable but on the other side. If there’s never a break. Everything else will break in time. And that’s our brain too. Your brain aka creative mind…

  • Bowing down to the altar of Matt

    It’s no secret that I love email and respect the dudes who pioneered the way we do things today. So I’m giving a little love to Matt Furey He is without a doubt. The Grand Poobah of email marketing. I got his email training years ago and decided to revise it again and just as…

  • Got milk?

    If you love an old outdated website with interesting information like I do… Then www.milk.com Will appeal to your nerd-y heart. It takes you back to the days where websites were fun and you weren’t hunted down by those god damn cookies so the ad moguls can blast bullshit ads right into your eye sockets.…

  • Shiny object lemonade

    Sometimes we need to squeeze those trendy bastards for all they’re worth… But let’s talk about your addiction like the marketing junkie you are. We all know that hot spicy rush when we see the next big thing. We love that dopamine hit when we whip out our credit card for another course, plugin, or…

  • Readers crave your bleeding, human words

    The internet’s drowning in a septic tank of A.I. generated horseshit. Perfectly formatted. Perfectly vacuous. Reading it is like licking the inside of a corporate bathroom’s hand dryer. The words look like words, sure. The sentences have subjects and predicates and all that grammatical foreplay, but they’re dead eyed mannequins wearing human skin suits. No…

  • Monday Mourning – A blatant pitch

    Another Monday. Another goddamn wrestling match with your email service provider… There you are, bleary-eyed, first sip of coffee barely touching your lips, and already you’re navigating through seventeen different screens just to send a simple broadcast. Click here. Scroll there. Wait for this page to load. Check that box. Uncheck the other one. Why…

  • Your writing needs to go full hulk mode and smash

    Sometimes your writing needs to be nice and polite and professional and all that responsible adult horsecrap… Then sometimes it needs to transform like The Hulk and turn your restrained voice into a raging monster of hyperbole that grabs people by their eyeballs and drags them right down the page and into your world. Exaggeration…

  • The Secret “Tomorrow Promise” Technique That Makes People Throw Money At Your Face

    You know what most advertising copy does? It screams “buy this thing because it will clean your toilet right the hell now!” or “this gadget will immediately make your life 17% less awful!” That right there is amateur hour garbage. Today focused benefits are for cowards. The real magic happens when you shift people’s gaze…

  • his weird writing technique makes your inner critic shut up for good

    I’m just gonna give a little shoutout to Jack Grapes For years he’s been teaching a thing called “Method Writing” and one of his core techniques is the literary equivalent of streaking… It’s basically you running naked through a field of words, while letting whatever bonkers thought nuggets tumble out of your skull meat and…

  • How I learned to stop listening to douchebags…

    Spoiler: We’re all douchebags within a various degree. The world runs on a special fuel made from blended confidence and bullshit. The most dangerous predator in the business ecosystem isn’t the smart person. It’s the certain person and this applies in every aspect of the world we’re so happily sucked in to. Meanwhile, the person…

  • 163 miles away

    Me being the incredibly high IQ person that I am. Who everyone adores… I’ve happened to have one of those days, where I ordered £60 worth of food From a restaurant that is over 163 miles away, tucked away neatly in London. Now my local place it’s usually around £25-30 and within a few minutes…

  • Entertaining emails are breakfast for your soul

    I opened up ye ol’ social media this morning just before heading out. It felt like the Great Pancake Invasion of 2025 was going on. I clearly missed it was Shrove Tuesday. Every business owner I know and every influencer I saw was posting something about it being pancake day. Maybe it’s just a thing…

  • Why it’s totally okay shitpost in your writing business

    Sometimes your brain needs to breathe. I mean sometimes my “muse” is in sweatpants eating Cheetos with chopsticks while watching Reality YouTube at 3 am… If you think Shakespeare didn’t write dick jokes? You think wrong. This writing gig is hard, ass-chafing work that strips the emotional epidermis from your soul faster than a belt…