1. Try not to mix painkillers, shiraz and business meetings at Power and the Glory.
2. It’s okay to be an ‘artist’ and a commercial photographer.
3. It’s better to find your bakkie off-street parking at night.
4. Don’t compare yourself to other creatives in your field. Focus on exploring your own ideas.
5. You can light almost anything with a Profoto medium softbox.
6. You can lose weight by using mathematics.
7. Make friends with people in the accounts department.
8. It’s easy to fall in love with a warm port city called Mombasa.
9. Do business with people you like. Hire people you could easily go for a beer with.
10. You can promise a client two of three things. Fast, cheap or good. But never all three.
11. Remember to have fun.