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What's the digital equivalent of sticky notes?

A list of apps that I either pay for or use for free to help me run my businesses. The goal being to give other business owners ideas for tools or new products.

Before we dive in, a recommendation (not an ad). Solo Capitalist is a fantastic new newsletter by my friend Wes Kimbell. He profiles million-dollar creator businesses and distills the techniques and frameworks they use to grow them. Now on to today's framework. 💡 The ideaHow do you know even before the

A mathematician on how to get the mind into motion.

The goal is resonance. Nothing is better than resonance. If you have a billion dollars, you are still seeking resonance. If you are well respected, you are still seeking resonance. If you are enlig…

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The psychological origins of waiting (... and waiting, and waiting) to work

What's yours?

A look inside the pricing playbooks used by dozens of unicorn companies with Pete Flint and Madhavan Ramanujam.

Fill-in-the-blank headlines you can use to generate ideas for effective content and provide value to your audience.

How to deal with the bollocks in your head with creativity Published Jul 08, 2021

Two hacks to get shit done Published Jul 08, 2021

The play before time ran out. The last speech of the campaign. The typo on your resume or the spot on your tie. The final decision before the company declared bankruptcy. We focus on the thing that…

Earlier this week, Caitlin Flanagan published a provocative essay in the Atlantic titled: “You Really Need to Quit Twitter.” In this instance, the label of “provocative” seems obligatory, even though an objective read of the piece reveals mainly common sense. Which serves to underline the whole point Flanagan is attempting to make. The article reports […]

That’s why some of this stuff is not a joke. We’re talking months of work—useful work—not busy work, not garbage work, but useful work done in days. At the beginning we asked the question, ‘Can you be productive to build the life you want?’ Imagine if you could move this quickly toward the thing you …

You can technically write an entire novel inside of Apple Notes or compose your blog posts in Notepad on your Windows computer. The basic concept of letting users type text into an app is not special, and yet writing apps are one of those things that everyone is very particular about. It’s all about the little things, and what feels right for each person.

“Am I dead? Am I still alive?” “Those aren’t the questions you should be asking.” (Care of Adult Swim)

No modern productivity guru would dare suggest it, but minimalist painter Agnes Martin got into creative flow by staring at the wall for a few hours.

I have two exemplary pieces of 21st-century writing that I want to share with you. Neither is hot off the CMSes; they've both aged just a li

Need a great ebook design? Get this guide on how to design an ebook like a pro. In 5 simple and free steps, you’ll produce an ebook that will engage your readers.

A list of things you're allowed to do that you thought you couldn't, or didn't even know you could.

Time has a monetary value to you. That is, money and time can be traded for one another in lots of circumstances, and there are prices that you are willing to take and prices you are not. Hopefully…

Is 1559 all hype? Or will it send Ethereum to the moon?

How to think about pricing ads in your newsletter.

The easy way to generate 3 interwoven pieces of content

What to do when you write about yourself.

Are you good at changing perspectives? If so, it may benefit you in more ways than you imagine.

Ryan writes to me: Consuming the different variety of media in which you publish ideas, I’ve noticed that you pose very high quality questions. For me, high quality questions have a Heideggerian quality insofar as they open a space for exploration, i.e. a concept, category, path of thought has specific affordances that were merely dormant […]

Chris Voss spent 25 years negotiating with bank robbers; this is what le learned about building trust Published Jul 01, 2021

Why Personal Branding is the next Multi-Billion-Dollar Marketing Trend Published Jul 01, 2021