How Blogs Broke the Web
“Once you’ve had a taste of effortless updates, it’s awfully hard to back to manual everything. So they didn’t. And neither did thousands of their peers. It jus...
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18 Ideas About How To Create A Hit From The Book “Hit Makers”
Hits are never guaranteed. However, there are a TON of things you can learn about how hits happen that will drastically improve your odds.
How to Identify and Tell Your Most Powerful Stories
“Telling a personal story from a place of conviction is the most powerful communication device you have. That’s what the greatest and most beloved communicators...
How to Curate Content
“With so much content at our fingertips, we could go in a million directions. Where to begin? With a point of view.”
John Hodgman’s Advice for Writers
“It’s not enough to write what you know — you have to know interesting things. So you have to put yourself into a world where you have experiences.”
Why You Can’t Trust Online Reviews
“People who write online reviews are more likely to buy things in unusual sizes, make returns, be married, have more children, be younger and less wealthy, and ...
Nine Storytelling Rules from Michael Lewis
“Cheap storytelling is a cheap pattern writing machine. If there’s something that violates the pattern, if you incorporate it into the story, often it makes the...
Nine Ways to Kill It on Instagram
“You need to give people content that they want to see, content that will give them some serious FOMO (fear of missing out), if they don’t follow you.”
20 Ideas on the Craft and Process of Writing
“Great artists are also writers. You may be a painter, photographer, or dancer, but writing is finding your center, whether journaling or writing long-form essa...
15 Default Privacy Settings You Should Change Right Now
“You’re not reading all those updated data policies flooding your inbox. You probably haven’t even looked for your privacy settings. And that’s exactly what Fac...