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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…

Sep 18

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…

Sep 12

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…

Aug 28

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…

Aug 21

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…

Aug 14

Last week, I told my story of moving from a Paycheck Person toward being a Courageous Thinker. Courageous Thinkers have two characteristics, Dynamic…

Aug 1

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…

Jul 24

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…

Jul 17

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…

Jul 4

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…

Jun 26

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…

Jun 19

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…

Jun 12

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