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Comparison 6 Aug 2013 | 06:42 pm
Nothing can make you reevaluate your life quite like attending a party where most of the people are much more successful than you. Not because it’s humbling. Not because it inspires you to do more or...
The Question to Ask 31 Jul 2013 | 06:11 am
Let’s stop and ask ourselves a question: What are we doing right now? Does it fall under “doing what you love” or “being a good person?” To categorize real quick: the first category is our passions,...
Some New Writing 17 Jul 2013 | 11:17 pm
Here’s some of my stuff from around the web for the last few weeks. Great Lessons From Bad People — Learning From History’s Most Hated Exposing the Racket: A Simple Stunt Reveals How Blogs Will Print...
Seneca on Travel 9 Jul 2013 | 07:59 pm
“Then from this dislike of others’ success and despair of their own, their minds become enraged against fortune, complain about the times, retreat into obscurity and brood over their own sufferings un...
Updates and RSS 28 Jun 2013 | 10:28 pm
As you know Google Reader is going away on July 1. The feed for this site will continue to work as it always has, and so will my email book recommendations. Personally, I’m using Feedly as my reader a...
Here’s Some Marketing Advice: Your Thing Sucks 12 Jun 2013 | 02:52 am
For whatever reason, in my writing I seem to have assumed the role of the guy who says the things that no one else will say. But in my actual business life as a marketer, I’ve been struggling with tha...
Help Me With My Next Book 16 May 2013 | 08:13 pm
I’ve talked a little bit about my next two projects in my reading newsletter and in the occasional interview, but for those of you who don’t know, I am working a two new books: one will be a Kindle Si...
Only One Way to Make Progress 9 May 2013 | 09:48 pm
We want things to happen. We know what we need to do solve our problems or overcome our obstacles. We’ve got it all figured out. And then we mostly proceed to sit and do nothing. And the most insidiou...
Trust Me I’m Lying Excerpt/Slideshow 16 Apr 2013 | 04:36 pm
I’ve wanted to put something like this together for a long time and so when AMP Energy’s PowerDash proposed sponsoring the idea, I jumped on it. What follows is a selected piece from Chapter II in Tru...
The Narrative Fallacy Embodied 26 Mar 2013 | 06:21 pm
Is there a better example of The Narrative Fallacy (or, the Soundtrack Delusion or all the posts I’ve tried to write on this subject) than this photo? Read the article. Compare it to the photo. That’s...