• The 1-2-3 for how to learn effectively from videos

    Hey! Just wanted to share a quick tip I found useful to effectively learn new things from videos. Could be from YouTube. Or a course you’ve bought. Especially if it’s videos-only — with little or no support material. This is… Read more…

  • Prods from the gods

    We’re in the month of New Year’s resolutions. Yeah… ok… it’s the end of the month. But hey… I guess my resolution WASN’T to write emails that are timely! 😆 But it’s close enough that resolutions might still be fresh… Read more…

  • How to be lucky

    “Luck is what happens when preparedness meets opportunity” A quote usually attributed to Roman philosopher Seneca. I first came across it while listening to old-school self-help teacher Earl Nightingale. The saying is a re-framing of what we might often think… Read more…

  • It keeps creeping in from all kinds of places

    I’ve been learning a few things from Tony Robbins lately. I’ve not listened to him say much until a couple of weeks ago. Just today I finished his beginning-of-the-year free event. Which I kinda signed up to on a whim.… Read more…

  • Swipeaholics anonymous

    Copywriters are often advised to collect a “swipe file”. To gather excellent examples of copy we come across. Top quality examples can be useful… no matter what kind of freelancing you’re doing. For copywriting… It might be famous ads from… Read more…

  • Even big players need your help

    A couple of days ago I wanted to do a simple thing. You just know this is gonna be a story about how it wasn’t simple at all, right? So… I simply wanted to export a list of emails from… Read more…

  • Marie Kondo’s $38 billion nightmare

    Back in 2020 there was an article from The Gazette with an INSANE stat: There’s an estimated 6.5 square feet of self-storage for every person in America! WWW-OW! Also: $38 billion is spent every year at something like 45,000 storage… Read more…

  • A day in the room of a million books

    Today I worked from my bedroom. No… not in bed in my jammies. We have a couple of nice old chairs near our giant bookshelf with a million books on it. It kinda feels like I’m sitting in a library… Read more…

  • Bravissimo

    So I opened my Gmail account to find this subject line: “Welcome to Bravissimo, come on in!” I’m like “Huh?… what’s this? I don’t remember signing up.” But the Italian-sounding word made me second-guess myself. You see: I’d signed up… Read more…

  • Every client needs you to do this

    “We have two ears and one mouth so we can listen twice as much as we speak.” Epicetus usually gets credit for this saying. He was a Greek Stoic philosopher. Alive in the first century AD. Sometimes the pre-Socratic philosopher… Read more…