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8 creators reveal their #1 growth hack
"Content is really just showing up every day and producing something valuable.”
‘I want to open a window in their souls’: Haruki Murakami on the power of writing simply
The master storyteller on finding a voice, creative originality and why he has never suffered from writer’s block
How to solve a creative block
Five ideas for getting unstuck
24 one-sentence tips to grow your Twitter audience
Larry June’s Slow Productivity - Study Hacks - Cal Newport
In August, a reporter from Rolling Stone sat down to interview the San Francisco-based rapper Larry June before he took the stage at Lollapalooza in Chicago. June is known for his status as an independent artist. After an early deal with Warner Brothers fizzled, June went on to produce and release almost all of his subsequent
De-Atomization is the Secret to Happiness
It may be that simple
TA #124: 🚂 The Little Metric that could; How to get Tom Hanks on your podcast
Hey, you. You're doing great. Click here to read this on the web. Source: Grosset & Dunlap Welcome to the 124th issue of Total Annarchy, a fortnightly…
The Notecard System: Capture, Organize, and Use Everything You Read, Watch, and Listen To
The Notecard System - the system used by some of today's and history's greatest artists. Ryan Holiday, Robert Greene, Erin Carr Lee, George Carlin & others all use(d) notecards to produce great work.
The 16 Greatest Lessons From 16 Years With Marcus Aurelius
I was 19 years old when I purchased my first copy of Meditations. Here are 16 Stoic lessons I learned from over 100 readings of the classic.
The Imperfectionist: Everyone is (still) winging it
Everyone is (still) winging it I don't have access to the traffic data, but I wouldn't be surprised if the single most-read thing I've ever written is still a blog post I ...
How I Take Notes When I’m Doing Research
Writing personal summaries of what I encounter turns raw info into knowledge
Ray Bradbury on feeding your creativity
A thousand day challenge to read a short story, a poem, and an essay every night.
The Art of Fermenting Great Ideas
And pickling jalapeños
Spreadsheet Leadership
Read in your browser here. Hi friends, What a wild thing to watch Write of Passage grow. We started the year ...
What I learned from James Clear on list building
11 Insights I Wish I Knew To Make My One-Person Business A Success - Dan Koe
60% of new jobs haven't been created yet. We have no idea what they will be. What we do know is that they will be on the internet.
On Michael Crichton’s Busy Ambition - Study Hacks - Cal Newport
By his last year at Harvard Medical School, Michael Crichton, 26-years old at the time, knew he didn't want to pursue a medical career, so he went to the dean with a proposition. He planned to write a nonfiction book about patient care, he explained, and wanted to know if he could use his final
In Praise of Idleness: Bertrand Russell on the Relationship Between Leisure and Social Justice
“Good nature is, of all moral qualities, the one that the world needs most, and good nature is the result of ease and security, not of a life of arduous struggle.”
Destruction and creation
The Truth about How Creativity Really Works
“Maybe that’s enlightenment enough: to know that there is no final resting place of the mind; no moment of smug clarity. Perhaps wisdom…is…
To Insure Peak Scrivening
writing tips
🥇Best of October - Our top 3 tweets
The Second Half of Life |
Out of control
How I realized the market is always right, and I have no idea what I’m doing.
What AI Can't Write
Can you?
Professio sano in vitam sanam (on balancing work and life) - Study Hacks - Cal Newport
A reader recently pointed me toward a long and thoughtful reflection on academic life written by Stephen Stearns, the Edward P. Bass Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Yale University. In a section titled "Learning Balance," he talks about his work habits in the early 1970s, when his first son was born. "I was
A Lost Suitcase
Twitter Replies: Dos and Don'ts
Please stop calling it the ‘newsletter economy’
Or the creator economy, for that matter