“The goal is not to be good — it’s to be great. The idea is to have the audience leave, and say, ‘You’ve got to see this.’ You have to work backwards from that result.”
Steve Martin On How To Be A Comedian
The Real Reason For The Media Bubble
“Today, 73 percent of all internet publishing jobs are concentrated in either the Boston-New York-Washington-Richmond corridor or the West Coast crescent that runs from Seattle to San Diego and on to Phoenix. The Chicagoland area, a traditional media center, captures 5 percent of the jobs, with a paltry 22 percent going to the rest of the country. And almost all the real growth of internet publishing is happening outside the heartland, in just a few urban counties, all places that voted for Clinton.”
The Two Things You Need To Get Rich
“You need to be in a position where your performance can be measured, or there is no way to get paid more by doing more.”
10 PR Tips From Warren Buffett
“Buffett builds political capital thoughtfully, for the day he may need it, because, as his partner Charlie Munger noted, ‘Our core competency is knowing we don’t know the future.’”
10 Ideas Worth Sharing This Week
“Be so good they can’t ignore you.” — Steve Martin
100 Ways To Be More Creative
“One hundred little things. They’re divided into 10 categories: read, write, create, make, connect, watch, stretch, learn, stop, and start.”
How To Write A Great One-Sentence Product Description
“Leading with the need is an extremely effective way to position your product as solving an important problem for your customers.”
3 Things School Taught You Without You Realizing It
“Growing up, everything you’re told to do is for no other purpose than to earn the approval of others around you. It’s to satisfy somebody else’s standard. Our system is performance-based and not purpose-based. It teaches mimicry and not passion.”
Watch This Before You Start Something
“There is no need to sharpen my pencils any more. My pencils are sharp enough. Even the dull ones will make a mark.”
A Life’s Worth Of Lessons In 300 Words
“Everybody is interesting if you give them the chance to be.”