At SXSW Interactive this year I attended one of the most inspirational keynote talks I’ve ever been to. Tina Roth Eisenberg, originally from Switzerland, is also known as ‘Swiss Miss’, her popular design blog, which she runs out of Brooklyn. She has a European viewpoint and a love for clean, Swiss functional design. Swiss-miss.com has a growing audience of 1.3M monthly unique readers from all over the world and was selected by The Times as one of the world’s Top 50 design blogs. She also runs a Brooklyn-based collaborative workspace calledStudiomates, organizes a monthly lecture series called CreativeMornings, is the inventor of the popular to-do app called TeuxDeux and is the force behind the temporary tattoo shop Tattly.
At her SXSWi keynote, ‘Swiss Miss’ shared her passion and knowledge from her diverse business experience. Her life lessons include:
- Love what you do
- Embrace enthusiasm
- Don’t complain make things better
- You’ve gotta trust, you’ve gotta empower
- Put experience over money
- Surround yourself with like-minded people
- Collaborate (stay away from ego)
- Ignore haters always
- Make time to think and breathe
- If an opportunity scares you, you need to take it
- Be someone’s eccentric aunt (this was my favourite!)
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