Magic - Chapter 57
Dis was nothing like I had imagined. I wouldn’t go so far as to say it was a happy place, but the monsters living there certainly didn’t seem any more miserable than they did on Earth.
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[DIGEST] If all else fails, you are not a failure...
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Planned serendipity
I always thought that the more successful you got in business, the more rational, logical, and measured you would be. Instead, I've had a journey into chaos.
Magic - Chapter 56
We arrived in Hell inside a sewer pipe filled with bile and sludge. It wasn’t unlike a sewer pipe on Earth, except that it was made of clay instead of concrete.
Notes on Cal Newport's Slow Productivity
I don't take the best notes, but I do have them.
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[DIGEST] Do Substack economics work for most writers?
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Are you finding arbitrage or building arbitrage?
When I first started building my career in earnest, Gary Vee was using the term “attention arbitrage” to explain what people needed to be concerned with in the then-nascent creator economy.
Magic - Chapter 54
The tunnel had collapsed behind us and the track beneath us disappeared, leaving Lily to crash two feet onto the ground.
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How to build an email sequence for a book launch
In this article, I’m going to explain how you can send emails daily during a book launch without pissing off your audience, and give you the exact sequence I used along the way.
Magic - Chapter 53
My mother would say I was a damned fool for working with the government, but I had been a fool for less than ten million dollars before—a lot less.
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How can we survive and thrive in the new media landscape?
The same things that saved us in the old media environment will save us in the new media environment.
Short circuiting the Substack burnout cycle
It seems like writers have a six-month burn rate where they come in excited, start to build, grind, and burn out. How do we live better lives in the meat grinder of capitalism?
Magic - Chapter 52
The tunnel had collapsed behind us and the track beneath us disappeared, leaving Lily to crash two feet onto the ground.
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How to get over your sales phobia
If you want to sell more of your products, you must master two things: The thing you are good at and sales.
Magic - Chapter 51
The Firestarter led me through the woods south of Seattle. We were deep in the thicket with only the sounds of nature for company, and she wasn’t much of a talker.