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Every creative person and anyone wanting success is always on the look for hacks. We study and examine high achievers and ask: How did they do it? What do they eat? When do they sleep? What books should I read for a little of their magic to rub off on

So what does it take to get people to read your stuff? You can go the click-baity route and mimic the latest Buzz Feed headlines. Offering little depth and sounding like a boring robot. You could go the opposite extreme and write stream-of-consciousness drivel amassing three readers including your hippie

Every creative person and anyone wanting success is always on the look for hacks. We study and examine high achievers and ask: How did they do it? What do they eat? When do they sleep? What books should I read for a little of their magic to rub off on

So what does it take to get people to read your stuff? You can go the click-baity route and mimic the latest Buzz Feed headlines. Offering little depth and sounding like a boring robot. You could go the opposite extreme and write stream-of-consciousness drivel amassing three readers including your hippie

We all have perfectionist tendencies. Doesn’t matter if you’ve written thousands of articles on Medium, or published twenty books. Perfectionism is a disease we all must fight. Now you may say: sure Ryan, perfectionism is a problem for you. Not me. I publish and ship all kinds of

In this episode, wait what? Yes, that's right. I screwed up, I gave up too soon... The Prolific Writer was dead, was lost, and now is found, and resurrected as The Prolific Creator. In this first episode of the new show, I explain why "I'm back baby!" It feels good

The Christian mystic and philosopher Simone Weil said this about attention: “Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.”Right outside my office door is a planter. And in this planter is a wild bush with beautiful greens and purples. I walk by this bush every day when I

In the new Paul McCartney documentary on Hulu, the former Beatle made an interesting observation. When recording Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, McCartney noticed a switch on the soundboard in the control room. The switch was flipped to “classical” or “pop” depending on the music being recorded. McCartney expressed

The famous rock critic of the 60s and 70s Lester Bangs once said: “The ultimate sin of any performer is contempt for the audience. Those who indulge in it will ultimately reap the scorn of those they’ve dumped on whether they live forever like Andy Paleface Warhol or die

In the late 60s, Barry Kramer started a Rock n Roll magazine. He named it Creem. A misspelled version of his favorite band, Cream. Kramer thought Rolling Stone magazine was named after a Dylan song (Like a Rolling Stone), why not do the same. Kramer, a hippie-businessman-entrepreneur, wanted to do