Magic - Chapter 59
We had descended for miles before they finally threw Aimee and me into our cells.
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How to compile your blog into a book
I’ve released multiple solo nonfiction books up to this point in my career and most of them were compiled almost exclusively or primarily through repurposing blog articles and Facebook posts.
Objectively good and subjectively your jam...
People ask me often how I get over bad reviews and keep going even when people are unimaginably cruel. It all goes back to a simple parsing of semantics we aren't taught in school.
Magic - Chapter 58
The stench of charred flesh filled my nostrils as we made our way down the dirt roads of Hell.
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How to build a sustainable and profitable subscription into your business
Having consistent income every month helps create safety, but how can we build that recurring revenue when it feels impossible to get anyone interested in peeking behind the paywall.
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.