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This New Business Mindset Might Help You Not Waste Time

If you’re like me, you’re in business to make a profit. You get paid, you do the work you agreed to do, or ship the product you agreed to send. But how you use your time isn’t anybody’s business but yours. You’re not accountable to a client to be productive a full 8 hours a […]

Try Your Hardest, Then Let It Go

I’m reading Bossypants by Tina Fey. It’s hilarious, but also includes some useful lessons and anecdotes about life as a writer. On page 123, Fey writes about “Things I Learned from Lorne Michaels.” (In case you don’t know, Lorne Michaels is the creator and producer of Saturday Night Live. He is the guy who hired […]

Forcing Efficiency

Time is strange. When we’ve got too much of it, we tend to squander it. When we don’t have enough of it, we tend to use it more wisely. To put it another way… The less we have to do, the less efficient we are. The more we have to do, the more efficient we […]

How Timed Essays Helped Me Become a Stronger Writer

In high school, I joined the newspaper staff as soon as they would let me, and I took all the honors English classes I could. I was in love with reading and writing — I couldn’t get enough of it. In honors English we would read a book every two weeks (usually a classic), then […]

How I Overcome Inertia

Nearly everybody deals with inertia at some point. The law of inertia says this: things at rest tend to stay at rest; things in motion tend to stay in motion. Nobody is immune to this law. Maybe this is why whenever John Carlton writes a sales letter, he imagines his prospect as a fat slob […]