Category: Contentions
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Business trust over business size
A Redditor asks, “How do I look bigger than I am?” with some context: I own a startup that provides a service to organizations. I’m about 6 months in and I’ve grown monthly revenue to about 4k. I am the only employee (like most startups) and I’m finding as I move upstream, I’m getting asked…
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Great Writing Is an Extension of the Product
In 2008, designer Paul Armstrong launched web.without.words, a project where he eliminated words and turned popular websites into wireframes. For example, he covered what Apple’s website would look like without words, which frankly doesn’t look all too dissimilar from what one of its product pages looks like today. Armstrong wanted to, “visually represent [his] core…
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Why Keanu Reeves Practiced Holding a Diamond with Tweezers for Weeks
How the search for shortcuts is actually costing you precious time
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4 ways to read more books this year
When applied properly, this technique can help you get much more out of what you read and increase the amount of reading you do.
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The Business of Blockheads
The saying goes, “No man but a blockhead ever wrote, except for money.” A proposition and toast to the blockheads who are in the business of writing.
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Why People Pay $10,000 per Month to Work with These Editors
“There are only two ways to make money in business: One is to bundle; the other is to unbundle.” — Jim Barksdale
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10 Question Commandments
I’ve professionally asked questions for years. Clients pay me thousands of dollars to ask the questions I do. I’ve also asked recording artists who I do interviews with. I got good enough that A$AP Ferg told me our interview was the best one he’d ever done. Here’s are some principles for asking good questions.
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Let’s Get It: Author Motivation 101
When I look at the money I make from writing, I can hardly believe my eyes. So I don’t. I turn on Thug Motivation 101, and listen to Jeezy say the same thing he said when I was in high school, “You gotta believe…”
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Process Your By-products
Whatever you’re selling, you’re also creating something valuable that you haven’t sold yet. It probably looks like waste. Process it and sell it!
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Story-Driven Pitching: 6 Steps for Better Pitches
For writers, entrepreneurs, or anyone who wants lead thinking, I’m going to show you my story-driven approach to pitching.