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🤯Unknown Unknowns #114 - Chasing Scratch
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…
Chris Wong
Sep 18
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🤯Unknown Unknowns #113 - I’m Getting Too Old For This Shit
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…
Chris Wong
Sep 12
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🤯Unknown Unknowns #112 - Bullshit Jobs
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
Aug 28
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🤯Unknown Unknowns #111 - Sinecures and Success
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…
Chris Wong
Aug 21
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🤯Unknown Unknowns #110 - Interest
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
Aug 14
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🤯Unknown Unknowns #109 - Dynamic Agency
Last week, I told my story of moving from a Paycheck Person toward being a Courageous Thinker. Courageous Thinkers have two characteristics, Dynamic…
Chris Wong
Aug 1
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🤯Unknown Unknowns #108 - Unlocking Agency
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…
Chris Wong
Jul 24
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🤯Unknown Unknowns #107 - Ambition
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…
Chris Wong
Jul 17
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🤯Unknown Unknowns #106 - Philosophical Wild Goose Chases
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…
Chris Wong
Jul 4
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🤯Unknown Unknowns #105 - Throw Out the Playbook
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…
Chris Wong
Jun 26
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🤯Unknown Unknowns #104 - Resonance Hooks
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…
Chris Wong
Jun 19
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🤯Unknown Unknowns #103 - Get Out of Your Head
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…
Chris Wong
Jun 12
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