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“If it sounds like writing … rewrite it.”

Days, it turns out, are rather easily made. The time required varies, but trends closer to making the bed, or making a cup of tea, than to making Ravioli. (If you are crazy good-looking and smile at people who aren’t when you pass them on the street, it can

How to be a successful content entrepreneur

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A subtle constraint on work & life

Every shade and stripe of every possible variety of connection is about wanting, above all else, to be known; for someone else to see as much of you as possible. Shared experience is important. It’s not everything, but it’s something, because nobody wants to be explaining at forty to a hostile audience why they are the way they are, but you don’t want to punch below your weight class, either, and wind up with somebody who only loves you because they don’t know any better—because the day they do know better is the day they’ll walk out the door.

In markets and life

David shares a compilation of the best links from his newsletter Friday Finds. Read here.

I recently discovered a simple step-by-step process that significantly increased my personal productivity and made me happier along the way.

Make sure you're playing the real game, not some more complicated game you've made up for yourself.

Tips to keep you from banging your head on your desk.

This is a free issue of A$A. Paid members get special commentary and access to my reading and link list. Like many people, part of my “daydream” was that after starting/selling companies, if that really worked out, I could get into Venture Capital. Maybe one day I would be like one of those investors we all know…

There are infinite forms of capital in the world, we just haven't tapped them yet.