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Having a style collapses hundreds of future decisions into one, and gives you focus.

If you want to progress faster, write concise explanations. Explain ideas in simple terms, strongly and clearly, so that they can be rebutted, remixed, rewor...

A riff on what it’s been like to be a solo studio / service business over the last four years.

One of my favourite things to do in my free time is to tinker with this website. Indeed, this website is the culmination of years of tinkering. I have added features like coffee shop maps that I can share with friends, a way for me to share my bio in two languages, a sitemap.xml file to help search engines find pages on my website, and more.

A web space community that focuses on building websites for self-expression and creativity, made up of professionals, hobbyists, and enthusiasts of the personal web.

One answer, and 5 tricks to help

You can’t give general advice. If I do, millions of creators are going to see this and then they’re going to do it and I’m going to fuck them over.

I get this question a lot. From Tim Stoddart’s personal newsletter: "I love newsletters. They are great businesses, I enjoy writing them, and they are lucrative. However, I’m still unsure about the format. I have two options… Do you prefer the lighthearted and more entertaining style of the

Put On Your Art Eyes Talking to the comedian Mike Birbiglia, the visual artist Wendy MacNaughton said that the job of the artist is just to "put on art eyes.” “Most of the best drawing in the world,” MacNaughton said, “has nothing to with making a quote-on-quote good drawing. It has to do with seeing

Sheehan Quirke went from working at McDonald's with 0 followers to over 1.5 million Twitter followers in 18 months.

One of the common questions I’m asked is how I create the …

Hollywood and tech firms want to reduce culture to a slurry of interchangeable bits. Let’s not help them out

How to be a successful content entrepreneur

“YouTubers have become diversified businesses. The channels I partner up with often have 5+ major income streams. Here is a (non exhaustive) list of income streams that I've seen YouTubers build and my thoughts on each: 1. YouTube ad revenue What: Ads placed on videos…”

Hey, you. You're doing great. Click here to read this on the web. Header image: Mine Welcome to the 143rd issue of Total Annarchy, a fortnightly…

Before we begin, new podcast is out talking about multipreneurship with Jesse Pujji who’s running a holdco called GatewayX after selling his bootstrapped company for 8 figures. Super tactical convo on multipreneurship 101. Listen on Apple or Listen on Spotify

When I wrote this today, #TwitterDown was trending on Mastodon. Here’s another lesson why using platforms like Twitter and Substack as your content home is a bad idea. Publish your content th…

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The Daily Record in Dunn, NC , has the highest market "penetration rate" in the country -- more than the population of the community it serv...

So your key metric went up... but at what cost?

Five examples of successful creator flywheels to help you grow your audience and business.

Looking back at all the tools and techniques that I've developed over the years as a writer, it occurs to me that most of them are, in one way or another, grappling with two critical mental forces…

"Everything in this notebook is subject to change."

“If you start with no ideas, something happens.”

“A week is nothing, one thinks one can do so much in a week”

How to keep the center solid.