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I nervously plunged into the water in one of my first open water SCUBA drives on a shipwreck. Here’s how that helped me grow my business.
When you are brainstorming things that you can create and sell, it is useful to know the primary things that people are willing to pay money for.
This simple calculation can be rather eye-opening on where and how you decide to spend your available time.
I used to run a blog that required more content than I cared to write. So, I hired writers for my blog. Here’s what I learned about finding, qualifying and paying bloggers for hire.
In many ways, the world of online porn tends to be the trailblazer for the rest of the internet. What those businesses do…. the rest of the internet normalizes after a year or two. So, what can we learn from that world?
This post was originally written the week of Thanksgiving 2010. It was something I was thinking about hard that day… and all these years later, I still feel like it is a great message. So, here it is…
When I had kids, I literally blogged for a living. Here’s a tale of what it was like doing something so “weird” for a living while being responsible for a family now.
Most creator-ethics conversations today focus on AI disclosure rules and FTC compliance — important, but they miss the deeper point. Here are 8 principles I try to live by as a blogger. They were true when I first wrote them down. They are MORE true now in the AI era. They also happen to be a success code as much as an ethics code.
There are two patterns most people live inside … usually without realizing it is a choice. One is self-reinforcing failure. The other is self-reinforcing success. Here is the framing I use to think about this, plus 6 principles that move you onto the success circle and keep you there … in 2026 specifically, where the pull toward the wrong one has never been stronger.
How do you get bloggers, podcasters, and other creators to actually promote your product? Most outreach gets deleted because it ignores how the person on the other end thinks. Here are 5 principles that separate outreach that works from outreach that gets blocked… plus the 2026 reality of AI’s role in this work.
Is double opt-in still the right call in 2026? Apple’s privacy changes and Google/Yahoo’s 2024 bulk sender requirements have shifted the math. Here are the pros, cons, the modern deliverability landscape, and a potential better way… plus the exact setup I personally use.
Most people assume the 9-to-5 job is the safe path… and self-employment is the risky one. After two decades of being self-employed since college, I’d argue it’s actually the opposite. Here’s why, plus the honest tradeoffs nobody talks about.
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