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A short story about absolutely nothing
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I don’t like beaches. It’s not a fevered hatred, like somebody who flat-out can’t stand reality TV and thinks it’s the decline of humankind. No, it’s more like a distaste of the TV show Friends, which I also possess. I understand why others might like it, I can even accept their…
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And the piece where I rail against 'Digital Writing'
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I don’t know when it all got shit. I guess it would have been somewhere between now and the last century. Somewhere around where people used to write things because the wanted to write things, and where people wrote things because they’re trying to “grow an audience”.
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We built things with our hands, then started writing Twitter threads about building things with our hands
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The number doesn’t go up faster when you watch it. The number doesn’t care about your obsession with it. The number increases when you make progress…
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As I sit here trying to think what to write, starting to type these very words that you’re now reading in an effort to delay the fact that I should say…
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Over the last couple of weeks I’ve been saying a phrase on Twitter that has been confusing a few folk. Destroy your audience. Every time I said it…
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They say you should write when you’re fired up. When you’ve got a bee in your bonnet as we Brits say. Well. I’ve never owned a bonnet nor ever found a…
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It's absolutely not a pyramid scheme
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“What gets measured gets improved.” — Robin Sharma “What gets measured gets managed” — Peter Drucker You started because you enjoyed it. You wanted a…
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I have two friends. One is a magician, the other a comedian. They both make respectable livings. Neither are well-known. Never been on TV, never have a…
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This Is Not Value

Prose about being yourself in a world obsessed with 'providing value', 'niching down' and self-improvement.
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