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Are You on ‘Clock Time’ or ‘Event Time?’

What happens to your creative work when you redefine your relationship to the clock

Nov 9, 2020

Multicolored clocks falling against a yellow-green gradient.

Nov 9, 2020

The Mechanics of Media

Why messages sink or spread

Apr 20, 2023

The Mechanics of Media

Apr 20, 2023

Fifteen Years as a Creator. (I’ll Never Make It.)

For fifteen years, I’ve struggled to “make it” as a creator. I now realize, I never will.

Jul 14, 2022

Fifteen Years as a Creator. (I’ll Never Make It.)

Jul 14, 2022

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Getting Art Done

E.R.A.S.E. F.E.A.R. and Finish Your Creative Projects

A nine-step process for breaking through Resistance.

Jun 16, 2022

E.R.A.S.E. F.E.A.R. and Finish Your Creative Projects

Jun 16, 2022

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Getting Art Done

Surround and Conquer (Your Biggest Dreams)

When Facebook was first expanding, they used a timeless military strategy to win their most-crucial first users. You can use this strategy…

Jun 2, 2022

Surround and Conquer (Your Biggest Dreams)

Jun 2, 2022

The mourning dove

The other day here in Colombia, I heard a mourning dove, and I had to ask myself…

May 25, 2022

May 25, 2022

Your Self-Published Book, On A Times Square Billboard

How I bought the most sought-after ad space on Earth for $20

Apr 7, 2022

Your Self-Published Book, On A Times Square Billboard

Apr 7, 2022

Why I don’t like music

Many years ago, I was filling out a profile on eharmony, and their questionnaire asked what kind of music I…

Apr 4, 2022

Why I don’t like music

Apr 4, 2022

Use the ‘Surround and Conquer’ technique to make hard things easy

There’s something you want to learn, or a project you want to take on. Use this trick to make it easy.

Mar 30, 2022

Use the ‘Surround and Conquer’ technique to make hard things easy

Mar 30, 2022

Pros and amateurs both fail. But here’s the difference.

The main difference between pro and amateur creators: Amateurs expect…

Mar 29, 2022

Pros and amateurs both fail. But here’s the difference.

Mar 29, 2022

What happens when you give away money on Twitter?

You fix the algorithm, that’s what

Mar 25, 2022

What happens when you give away money on Twitter?

Mar 25, 2022

3 Steps I’ve Followed to Sell 50,000 Books

I’ve sold 50,000 self-published books. No publisher, no employees, no publicist.

Mar 3, 2022

3 Steps I’ve Followed to Sell 50,000 Books

Mar 3, 2022

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Getting Art Done

If you aren’t scrapping ideas, it’s time to start

Use Hemingway’s Iceberg Principle to leave out whats holds your work back

Sep 2, 2021

If you aren’t scrapping ideas, it’s time to start

Sep 2, 2021

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Getting Art Done

Don’t fight your Shiny Object Syndrome

It’s natural

Aug 5, 2021

Don’t fight your Shiny Object Syndrome

Aug 5, 2021

This system has helped me publish a newsletter for 140 weeks (and counting)

Producing a weekly newsletter is only overwhelming if you don’t have a great system.

Jul 22, 2021

This system has helped me publish a newsletter for 140 weeks (and counting)

Jul 22, 2021

I Took a Week Off. Three Years Later, I Sold to Google.

How the “week of want” brings you explosive ideas

Apr 6, 2021

I Took a Week Off. Three Years Later, I Sold to Google.

Apr 6, 2021

She Became One of the Greats

It started with a simple exercise, and a tough decision

Apr 2, 2021

She Became One of the Greats

Apr 2, 2021

Your Life is Too Complicated.

“The birthday problem” explains why

Mar 30, 2021

Your Life is Too Complicated.

Mar 30, 2021

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Geek Culture

Learn to Predict the Future with the Avocado Challenge

You can be better at predicting the future. All you need is a few delicious avocados.

Mar 24, 2021

Learn to Predict the Future with the Avocado Challenge

Mar 24, 2021

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Getting Art Done

3 Things I Learned About Productivity Meditating 60 Hours in 60 Days

“Giving up” an hour a day may be the most productive thing you can do.

Jan 8, 2021

3 Things I Learned About Productivity Meditating 60 Hours in 60 Days

Jan 8, 2021

David Kadavy

David Kadavy

Author, ‘Mind Management, Not Time Management’ https://amzn.to/3p5xpcV Former design & productivity advisor to Timeful (Google acq’d).

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