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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.

I have another birthday, and another bunch of unsolicited advice.    • That thing that made you weird as a kid could make you great as an adult — if you don’t lose it. • If you have any doubt at all

By Duncan Anderson. To see all blogs click here . Reading time: 7 mins One Sentence Summary : it’s not optimal to be one way all the time, try to figure out what mode best suits each set of circumstances!  “Make your interests gradually wider and more impersonal, until bit by bit t

In a sermon delivered at the height of World War Two, a period awash in distraction and despair, C.S. Lewis delivered a powerful claim about the cultivation of a deep life: “We are always falling in love or quarreling, looking for jobs or fearing to lose them, getting ill and recovering, following public affairs. If […]

I have made notes when reporting news, interviewing people, or drafting outlines for most of my life. In the early days, it was shorthand. Later, it became a weird blend of English, symbols, and ol…

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Listening increases the value and impact of your words. “The biggest communication problem is we do not listen to understand. We listen to reply.” Stephen R. Covey Not listening: Waiting-listening:…

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Where do you start when you're first considering angel investing?

Here are 7 reasons I am not optimistic about Ethereum’s long-term future.#1. It is not immutable and can be censored. The developers can roll back transactions and change the rules whenever they want. They can also be pressured by others – such as governments.— Nick Giambruno (@NickGiambruno) April 30, 2021

10 years after Bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto's disappeared, Pete Rizzo distills the full story of his time as project leader into one readable article.

At Basecamp, we treat our company as a product. It's not a rigid thing that exists, it's a flexible, malleable idea that evolves. We aren't stuck with what we have, we can create what we want. Just as we improve products through iteration, we iterate on our company too. Recently, we've made some internal company changes, which, taken i...

“Any observed statistical regularity will tend to collapse once pressure is placed upon it for control purposes.” True.

Creator content funnels can help you grow quickly. Here's how.

I started reading Paul Graham because I was interested in startups. But I continued reading him because I became interested in good writing. Similarly, he once told an interviewer, “You have got me as your guy for programming and entrepreneurship or something like that. And, actually, probably, it is writing. More than anything else.”

The neglected middle child of mental health can dull your motivation and focus — and it may be the dominant emotion of 2021.

By Duncan Anderson. To see all blogs click here . Reading time: 4 mins One Sentence Summary : in the present good and bad things will happen, but bad things in the present can be good long term if you can learn from them.  *Note: for the purpose of this blog I’m going to be talki