Reading Time: < 1 min I recently read the excellent book “Banana Ball“, the story of the Savannah Bananas baseball team. I was well-aware of the team, but have yet to attend a game and the book was fantastic. One part of the book talked about the Negro baseball league and how it was always underappreciated. It’s been more appreciated […]
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It takes a lot of effort to look effortless
Reading Time: 2 min We see it in all walks of life — people that make things look effortless. This could be someone giving a talk, an athlete, a musician, or any number of others. They all have one thing in common: they put in a lot of effort to make things look effortless. In a recent episode of […]
Bugging 24,990 people to make 10 sales
Reading Time: 2 min I’ve shared my disdain for cold email many times on here, and a recent video that I watched help to prove my point. Similar to how I follow both sides of political contests online, I also keep an eye on cold emailers spammers to see what their latest techniques are. I was watching a video […]
Truths depend on our own point of view
Reading Time: 2 min There are a lot of absolute truths in the world, but many are subjective. For example, I can 100% prove that Chick-Fil-A has the fastest drive-thru of all similar restaurants, but I can also 100% prove that they have the slowest. Both are true, but they depend on your point of view. In Star Wars: […]
Wantrepreneurs are content consumers
Reading Time: 2 min People that work to grow their business generally fall into one of two camps: entrepreneurs and wantrepreneurs. Entrepreneurs work with their plan, and wantrepreneurs just hope that things work out along the way. Both can succeed, but the odds are much higher for one over the other. It reminds me a bit of Antoine de […]
We are generators of the media
Reading Time: 2 min A few weeks ago, PJ Vogt interviewed Ezra Klein on the Search Engine podcast. It was a fascinating interview and I encourage you to give it a listen, but one concept that Ezra shared really stuck out to me — we are generators of the media. He said this on a podcast, and I’m repeating […]
Writing doesn’t begin with a blank page
Reading Time: 2 min If you know you need to write something and you’re struggling with where to start, a big blank page sitting in front of you can be very intimidating. However, it doesn’t have to be that way. For me, notes are the key. Before I sit down to write anything, I already have a few notes […]
The long climb of an obsession on quality
Reading Time: 2 min I’ve mentioned the excellent “Acquired” podcast on here a few times (including learning as leverage and average advice), as it’s a fantastic show. I’m relatively new to it, but over the last year or so there are a lot of people that are new to it. Case in point, here is their growth over the […]
The Serendipity Vehicle
Reading Time: 2 min Serendipity is one of those things that just seems to kind of happen on its own, similar to luck. However, just like luck, you can do things to make those random bits of serendipity happen more often. David Perell feels that writing can be the best kind of networking, and I tend to agree. In […]
20 years of blogging
Reading Time: < 1 min 20 years ago tomorrow, on March 17, 2004, I published my first blog post. Or least, it’s the oldest that I can find. WordPress was less than a year old, and my first post regarding WordPress came just a few weeks later. I’ve been hit or miss over the years. There were some very slow […]