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I love podcasts, and I’ve been obsessed with a new one lately. It’s called Chasing Scratch, and it’s about two guys trying to become scratch golfers…
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You probably don’t remember the old Lethal Weapon movies from the 80’s. One of the main characters, Roger Murtaugh, kept saying, “I'm getting too old…
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What does it say about our society that it seems to generate an extremely limited demand for talented poet-musicians, but an apparently infinite demand…
Chris Wong
The first time I heard of “sinecure,” I thought that was the dream. Do nothing, get paid. Sign me up! But my last job was actually a sinecure. My boss…
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For a long time, I was scared to show what I was interested in. I just wanted to fit in, so I liked whatever my friends (or people I wanted to be…
Chris Wong
Last week, I told my story of moving from a Paycheck Person toward being a Courageous Thinker. Courageous Thinkers have two characteristics, Dynamic…
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It's been three years since I quit my job. I have never come close to regretting that decision, but I also can’t explain why it was a good decision. Was…
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When I was a kid, we had to draw what we wanted to be when we grew up. I drew a fireman because that’s what the kid next to me drew. Things haven’t…
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There’s an old joke about a man who was stranded in a rapidly rising flood. He prayed to God for help, but whenever help came he refused it, saying he…
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I have a hidden graveyard. It’s my downloads folder and it’s filled with PDFs promising Five Steps to Copywriting, The Essential Playbook for Twitter…
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Louie Bacaj and I just wrapped up our fourth cohort of Newsletter Launchpad, where we teach how to start and leverage your newsletter. It’s a time of…
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When I write, I often have moments when I’m stuck. I don’t know what to write next or where the essay is actually going. I’m getting in my own way…
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