I just finished reading How to Survive as a Writer in a Capitalist Dystopia and I was intrigued by how he broke down audience growth. Specifically: * It's ok and very possible to pay for advertising to get newsletter leads, and you can see this as a way of
A good strategy defines a critical challenge. What is more, it builds a bridge between that challenge and action, between desire and immediate objectives that lie within grasp. -- from Good Strategy, Bad Strategy by Richard Rumelt There's so much I didn't understand about strategy before I
"There are innumerable ways to write badly. The usual way is making sentences that don’t say what you think they do."
"In almost any negotiated agreement the key ingredients will be similar: dreams and data."
I’m not going to finish this one right now, although I think it’s an important book. I’ve made it about a third of the way through. I tend to agree with this review in Resilience. Specifically: With all the admonitions, I was prepared to be deeply affected
I’m reading Start More Than You Can Finish, by Becky Blades, which I believe I found through Tracy Durnell’s page documenting her explorations into creative process. I was instantly intrigued by the title, having also read Charlie Gilkey’s Start Finishing, which obviously has some similar themes but
"if you can’t see the small you will keep leaping from built thing to built thing"
I recently finished Duly Noted: Extend Your Mind Through Connected Notes, by Jorge Arango, an experienced information architect. (I spent most of the book drooling over Arango’s information processing approach, which uses several Mac-only tools, like DEVONthink and Tinderbox. Will my next computer be a Mac?) In some
"Perfectionism is a phenomenon, not a disorder."
I've just finished reading Sophie Strand's The Madonna Secret. I love the voice in which the book is written -- where Miriam is looking back on her past, where Miriam can tell us the moments in which she wishes she had understood more or acted differently -- yet