James Altucher is still alive. Thank god. (I’d be desperate, dateless, and sleeping in a gutter without him.) What James said about New York nearly got him assassinated. Even Jerry Seinfeld got mad at him. But what many people don’t know about James is he’s part of a...
Writing online still sucks. We’re still mostly in the age of Web2 which is the era of mobile apps and social media. We’re moving slowly into the world of Web3 — the next version of the internet. Web3 is simply an internet built on top of decentralized blockchain...
Making money as a creator has radically changed. The downsides of traditional platforms like Twitter and Facebook have got exposed — random bans, random moderation, zero transparency. As a result creators have figured out they have to own their audience. Around the...
LinkedIn is a grandpa in internet terms. Yet it’s still one of the best platforms on the internet that 99% of creators and entrepreneurs misunderstand. How do I know? I’ve spent every day for the last 8 years on there. I have one of the largest audiences on the...
The best ideas are so stupidly simple. A newsletter doesn’t seem smart. Anyone can create one. Email is nothing new. Yet a small number of us have unlocked the secret of why newsletters are so powerful. One of those is Dickie Bush. His mentor Khe Hy said to him while...
Most writing wisdom is a dumpster fire. It’s full of algorithm hacks and cheap tricks like “you follow me, and I’ll follow you. Dahhh … sound good?” Yuck. Here’s the real wisdom I learned about writing after eight years. None of it is throwaway cliche platitudes...
