The five-piece portfolio

Look at the pile you've built: a quote poster in three moods, the Fern & Pot social set, an event poster, a wordmark, a slide deck. Module 3 ended with a promise — that this pile would become power. Here's the first surprise about how: the move is not adding more. It's showing less.

Why five beats forty

Whoever looks at your portfolio — a café owner, a hiring manager, a friend-of-a-friend with a business — gives it about a minute. Sound familiar? It's the poster's 3-second test, stretched slightly. And here's the brutal maths of that minute: you are judged by your weakest piece, not your average. Forty screenshots containing six great ones reads as "inconsistent". Five great pieces reads as "this person delivers".