“You’ve got to approach your writing with a business mindset. You’re an entrepreneur first, and a writer second.”
How to Make Your First $4,000 as a Freelance Writer
The Dark Forest Theory of the Internet
“The dark forests grow because they provide psychological and reputational cover. They allow us to be ourselves because we know who else is there.”
The Myth of the Niche Market
“If you want to increase your chance of catching some fish, you need to go where there are many.”
10 Ideas For The Interested This Week
“Continue to take care of each other.” — Floyd Martin
How to Do What You Love
“The test of whether people love what they do is whether they’d do it even if they weren’t paid for it — even if they had to work at another job to make a living.”
You Will Be Young for a Very Long Time
“I’ve come to regard youth as more than an age range; it’s any time in your life when you still have all the options available to you. You might swerve in and out of youth depending on your life circumstances.”
Why You Never Seem to Have Enough Time
“Time pressure is the uncomfortable gap between how we wish we spent our time — and how we think that would make us feel — and how we’re spending it and feeling now.”
David Bowie’s Advice to Artists
“I think it’s terribly dangerous for an artist to fulfill other people’s expectations.”
20 Secrets to Creating Memorable Presentations
“Too often in presentations, people are more focused on detailing every single detail of research they uncovered rather than thinking about what they want the audience to remember.”
The Seven Commandments of the Unmistakable Creative
“When nobody does what you do in the way that you do it, your competition becomes irrelevant. You’re not the best, you’re the only. That’s how you become Unmistakable.”