Document: WM-082                                                 P. Webb
Category: Life                                                2026-01-16

                      I hate the word "impossible"

Abstract

   Impossible is not a word, it’s an excuse.

Body

   Sometime in my late teens, I came up with the mantra in the abstract
   above. I wish I could remember the context behind these words forming
   in my mind but alas, that’s lost to the sands of time. However, as a
   youth I was a regularly inspired by the inventions of the day being
   created by people in the distant past.

   

   This mantra has helped me navigate extraordinarily difficult periods
   in my life and will sustain me up to the end.

   I have some networking events coming up so I went over to Moo[1] to
   see what they’ve got going on these days. Their half-sized cards look
   neat. In addition to that, they have this thing called "Printfinity"
   where you can have several designs for the backs of the cards so I
   tried that out. Here’s what they look like:

   

   

   The icons are SVGs of the original NTT DoCoMo emoji[2] and the
   gradients are from Asylab[3][4]. The main typography is Advercase[5]
   with fonts extracted from MMBN1 (punctuation) and MMBN6 (@ symbol). I
   don’t remember where I downloaded the MMBN ones from, probably a
   forum. Finally, the QR code is my email address. Business cards are
   about communication, right? Reduce friction!

   The extra space in the middle could be for writing lil’ notes, idk.

   In addition to my mantra, I also have immense dislike for the word
   "can’t" and I try not to use it. Pretty much anything self-limiting
   rankles me. We’ve tricked sand to think, for crying out loud!

   Anyhoo, I’m happy with how these business cards turned out and I’m
   glad they won’t take up space in my wallet[6]. 🕸