“If you’re just posting a link and moving on, you’re doing it wrong. Make sure your content is set up as the start of a conversation, not as a mere signpost to an article you wrote elsewhere.”
Linkedin Tips from 11 Linkedin Experts
How to Avoid the Originality Trap
“The biggest thing that creatively inhibits people isn’t necessarily the fact that they don’t have any ideas, it is because they judge the ideas they do have as unoriginal.”
How Your Awareness of Death Can Help You Enjoy Your Life
“You are in a game right now and you can’t see the clock so you don’t know how much time you have left. And yet, you’re free to make the game as interesting as possible — you can even change the rules.”
A Guide to the Best Productivity Apps
“There are apps — most of them free — you can download to make your life easier, more balanced, more productive, and most importantly, more in control of your time.”
We Underestimated the Impact of Reality TV on the World
“Aren’t the people spewing preposterous political talking points they’ve been paid to disperse just like those kids on The Real World who knew why they’d been cast and played their roles with gusto?”
Five Facebook Ad Mistakes to Avoid
“In Facebook’s algorithm, the more engagement that you get, the more comments, the more likes, the more people are interested in what you have, the cheaper it’s gonna be to show that to everyone in their feed.”
10 Ideas For The Interested This Week
“Obstacles are what you see when you take your eyes off of the goal.” — Vince Lombardi
10 Quick Tips For Bloggers
People enjoyed my 10 Quick Tips for Creators, so I put together another batch of simple advice — this time for bloggers (or really anybody who posts written content online).
How to Design Your Life
“You can’t analyze the future. You can’t run the numbers on the future. You have to go actually create it.”
Stop Trying to Have a Perfect Day
“Imagining a perfect day and actually striving for it has much of the same effect. It implies that the problem is your lack of control, the absence of order in your affairs, rather than your ability to function in multiple shifting states and environments.”