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"You want to write a sentence as clean as a bone. That is the goal."

“Every day the task seems hopeless and I feel like giving up.”

Dear readers, it is with troublesome news I break my three months of silence. The statistics all point towards the same conclusion: we have a global outbreak of fuckarounditis. Fuckarounditis is a behavioral disorder characterized by a mediocre physique and complete lack of progress, despite significant amounts of time spent in the gym. Fuckarounditis most commonly manifests […]

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Lesson of the Week: Types of Modules Last week, we introduced the concept of the Minimum Viable Newsletter. The idea is to fit the newsletter to your lifestyle, not the other way around, so you can stick with it. The best way we have found to create the minimum newsletter is to break it down into parts. Each part of your newsletter you can think of as a module.

Introduction To Sanderson’s Laws I like magic systems. That’s probably evident to those of you who have read my work. A solid, interesting and innovative system of magic in a book is something that really appeals to me. True, characters are what make a story narratively powerful—but magic is a l ...

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Share your calendar(s), and the world will know what you (and your company) values. Where does your time go? How much time do you spend: Talking to customers? Sharing your insights? Reflecting on what you’ve learned recently? “Managing” stakeholders? In 1:1s without your manager? Planning for things far off into the future? Chats with no clear resolution or progress?

You should start a blog. Having your own little corner of the internet is good for the soul! But what should you write about? It’s easy to get hung up …

Breaking Up with Productivity Advice

"Content is really just showing up every day and producing something valuable.”

The master storyteller on finding a voice, creative originality and why he has never suffered from writer’s block

Five ideas for getting unstuck

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

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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 - 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.

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.

​ ​ ​ 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 ...

Writing personal summaries of what I encounter turns raw info into knowledge

A thousand day challenge to read a short story, a poem, and an essay every night.

And pickling jalapeños


 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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 Hi friends, ​ What a wild thing to watch Write of Passage grow. We started the year ...

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.

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

“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.”