“It’s a simple truth: you are less likely to continue doing something that you do not enjoy.”
The Number One Reason Why Good Habits Don’t Last
How to Organize Your Schedule for a Productive Week
“Bringing structure to your week and day schedule is similar to de-cluttering your personal space. When you eliminate clutter, your mind perceives your environment as an organized area and that allows it to analyze patterns in a more effective way.”
A Prediction: Social and Media Are About to Split
“As users migrate to these closed systems, they’re also shifting away from the type of broad-based algorithmic feeds packed with news and media content that were the hallmark of first-generation social media.”
10 Ideas For The Interested This Week
“When you pay attention to boredom it gets unbelievably interesting.” — Jon Kabat-Zinn
How To Get People To Buy, Share, Or Consume Your Creations
You need action.
No matter what you want to accomplish, your success depends on your ability to convince others to take action.
And while every situation is unique, there are some universal tactics you can employ to increase the chances your audience will purchase, click, share, join, watch, or do.
How Gary Vaynerchuk Discovers New Trends
“My mentor is you. It is far better for you to look up to the 31 people that leave comments on your shit than to watch me more.”
How to Get Focused for 2018
“One of the biggest mistakes I see students make when setting goals to get focused is that they start to think about how to accomplish the goals before just laying out what they want.”
What Marketers Don’t Understand About Critical Mass
“Most marketers are fooling themselves. They imagine that the audience size necessary for critical mass is right around the corner, but it’s actually closer to infinity. That, like a boat with a leak, you always have to keep bailing to keep it afloat. If you don’t design for a low critical mass, you’re unlikely to get one.”
52 Interesting Things Learned in 2017
“Facebook employs a dozen people to delete abuse and spam from Mark Zuckerberg’s Facebook page.”
Social Media Is the New Smoking
“Silicon Valley faces a crucial imperative to tell the public about their morally questionable practices they have — unfortunately — learned from the tobacco industry, which is, setting an addiction that is extremely good for business.”