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How to Win the Internet

When I was in the third grade, I learned that being Asian was different.

The New York Times caused a stir recently when, in an article about pandemic book sales, it disclosed that “98 percent of the books that publishers released in 2020 sold fewer than 5,000 copies.” Though that statistic was shocking to many, it is not new information.

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And start raising kind ones.

Give a good ending to your readers that’s good for business too. Here’s how to do that – Content Marketing Institute

Dean Jackson is old school. He's the creator of a bunch of cool marketing tactics that make up the foundations of internet marketing. I've heard him speak 100's of times and his simple, conversational approach to marketing still blows my mind every time. I was a guest on Dean Jackson's…

And it’s not to be a generalist.

If you’ve ever felt like modern social networks only show a cardboard-cutout version of yourself, it might be time to make your personal changelog.

In a paper published last month in the journal Nature (summary), a group of scientists from the University of Virginia reported on a series of experiments designed to assess how we solve problems. When presented with a challenging scenario, humans cannot evaluate every possible solution, so we instead deploy heuristics to prune this search space down […]

to understand smart contract

C.G. Jung Letters, Vol. 1: 1906-1950 To Frau V. Dear Frau V., 15 December 1933 Your questions are unanswerable because you want to know how one ought to live. One lives as one can. There is no sing…

You can found an institution, or you can inherit it.

Trends: An Inside Look at How 7-Figure Newsletters Make Money. Presented by: Ethan Brooks Senior Analyst, and Lead Researcher for Guides

Honoring the reader’s time and attention.

The “writer brain” helps content marketers in the early part of their career, but, left unchecked, it hinders them in the latter stages.

How to play the game of life for long-term rewards

Narrative nonfiction writers who have written books: What one thing do you wish you'd known when you started working on your first book? What do you wish you'd done differently?

K guys I need all your book writing advice. Like, all of it. You may think “we’ll surely she knows this” I don’t I am dumb as rocks, help me

A trove of quotes on the great jazz musician's composing process

How founders got their first 1000 customers

It's worse than a board of advisors. The entire idea of burning ETH to change the monetary policy was proposed by Ethereum's founder Vitalik Buterin back in 2018 to pump ETH's price (and his premine). https://t.co/TNzSfIUKBn pic.twitter.com/5E3lOhMpgT— grubles (@notgrubles) May 2, 2021

What I learnt from art history and art

Creators are often told that consistency is a key virtue. But that’s not the whole story.

Real-world stories from 12 online writers on how they got their first 1,000 subscribers.

How a list of "funny" customer names triggered an internal reckoning

Unhappy people fail to recognize what matters, instead becoming overly focused on what they believe is missing from their existence.