“No new hobbies, equipment, games, or books are allowed during this year. Instead, you have to find the value in what you already own or what you’ve already started. You improve skills rather than learning new ones. You consume media you’ve already stockpiled instead of acquiring more.”
Malcolm Gladwell’s Advice to Entrepreneurs
“The problem is almost always larger than you, and so it can’t be mastered in one fell swoop. You have to learn to give the problems you’re working on the respect they deserve.”
27 Ways to Get More Traffic to Your Website
“All you need to do is find questions that your target audience asks online. Then, answer those questions in your content.”
Brands Need a Rallying Cry, Not a Tagline
“Rallying cries invite us into the story. They tap into our aspirations. They charge us to become better. They do all this and more.”
10 Ideas For The Interested This Week
“The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.” — Mark Twain
The Secret To A Successful Newsletter Is Consistency
“Getting an audience is hard. Sustaining an audience is hard. It demands a consistency of thought, of purpose, and of action over a long period of time.” — Bruce Springsteen
How to Get Better at Learning
“You ‘learn’ (or rather, at first, discover) a handful of new strategic ideas (great!). They make sense in your head (awesome!). You can see yourself doing them (brilliant!). Now … at this point you’ve still learned nothing. No change has happened yet, remember. You’ve only discovered something new. Which is different from learning.”
The Life Changing Advice of 100 Insanely Interesting People
“There’s no mythical date in the future when the conditions will be perfect.”
Eight High-Level Musings About Working in Social Media
“More than ever we need quality over quantity. Every action brands take online should be about adding value. In order to this, teams need focus, a strategic mindset and permission to not be everything to everyone.”
How to Reposition Your Product and Charge 8x Its Price
“It’s always 10x more valuable for a business to grow faster than it is for the business to save money.”