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10/20/2024
7 : 14
Hire My Talented, Full-Time Team
Read in your browser here. Hi friends, A few months ago, I made the very difficult decision to shut down Write of Passage at the end of this year. To make a long story short, we've impacted
10/3/2024
19 : 14
It's Live!!
Read in your browser here. Writing Examples is live! Here's the site. Here's the launch tweet. We built this website to celebrate great writing. It's 100% free. Each article
9/28/2024
22 : 54
Last Chance to Join Write of Passage
Read in your browser here. Enrollment for the final Write of Passage cohort closes on Monday, and there's something I want you to know: this experience is unlike anything else on the Internet. It
9/25/2024
13 : 54
I Interviewed Sam Altman
Read in your browser here. You know Sam Altman as the CEO of OpenAI — but he's also an avid writer. We spoke not once but twice about how he captures ideas, clarifies his thinking, edits his
9/13/2024
16 : 24
I'm cooking up something new
Read in your browser here. Hi friends, One of the weirder things about me is that I handwrite my to-do list on a restaurant napkin every morning. Standard pieces of paper are too big, the lines on
8/20/2024
2 : 12
Personal update (It's time for a new chapter)
Read in your browser here. Hi friends, I have an update to share with you about Write of Passage. The company is going to shut down at the end of the year, and the next cohort will be our last.
7/22/2024
17 : 14
Learn Great Copywriting in 76 Minutes
Read in your browser here. Hi friends, I know it's been some time since I've written you, and I'm trying to do it more often. Anyway, this one's short. Just three things for today:
6/7/2024
22 : 24
"We Need a Slowness Revolution"
Read in your browser here. Hi friends, The Internet has us trapped in a recency bias. It was supposed to usher in an information superhighway that gave us direct access to history's greatest ideas.
3/11/2024
17 : 34
10 masters share 10 ways to improve your writing
Read in your browser here. Hi friends, How I Write has put me in the room with some seriously talented writers, and here are some of the lessons I've picked up. I can't promise that they
2/13/2024
0 : 44
Choose Your Own Adventure
Read in your browser here. Hi friends, Long time, no chat. Instead of writing you a tome about what I've been up to, I've written you a choose-your-own-adventure tour with a short article, a
12/2/2023
0 : 24
Friday Finds (The Last Edition)
Read in your browser here. Hi friends, I've been writing this newsletter every Friday for a few years now, and I'm ready for something new. That makes this my last Friday Finds for the
11/25/2023
3 : 54
Friday Finds (Education, Idea Maze, Invention, Supply Chain, Physics)
Read in your browser here. Hi friends, I'm with family today, so I've recycled some of my favorite links from past editions this week. Also, I'm planning to publish my own writing much more
11/17/2023
22 : 24
Friday Finds (Vegas, Thiel, Death, Rome, Charisma)
Read in your browser here. Hi friends, Hello from the Las Vegas strip. This city is such a strange place. It's a sprawling concrete jungle driven by the pursuit of maximal profit, with little
11/11/2023
2 : 14
Friday Finds (News, Bali, Thinking, Frog, Architecture)
Read in your browser here. Hi friends, The mission of Friday Finds is to provide a counterweight against the modern obsession with news and what's trending. I can't shake the feeling that the
11/4/2023
1 : 24
Friday Finds (Leisure, Blogs, Psychology, Careers)
What skills are you compounding?
10/28/2023
2 : 14
Friday Finds (Disney, Math, YouTube, News)
Read in your browser here. The thinking mind moves horizontally, but the writing mind moves vertically. Like the eye, the mind likes to wander. It'll constantly skip around and change focus unless
10/20/2023
22 : 54
Friday Finds (Rilke, Disney, Dating, Music, Social Change)
Read in your browser here. Hi friends, We're exactly halfway through our biggest Write of Passage cohort yet, and something's seriously different this time around. We're focusing even more
10/19/2023
6 : 44
Friday Finds (Bradbury, Star Wars, Copywork, Talent)
Read in your browser here. Hi friends, "I wish I could write more, but Write of Passage is too much of a time commitment" is one of the more common responses I get from Finds readers. Well, I
10/6/2023
23 : 44
Friday Finds (Andreessen, Airlines, Cinema, Comedy)
Read in your browser here. Hi friends, Each year, I read fewer and fewer books, but go deeper and deeper on the books I choose to read. It hit me yesterday when I realized that we're approaching
9/30/2023
4 : 44
Friday Finds (Experts, LeBron, Gorilla, Music, Burial)
Read in your browser here. Hi friends, Greetings from Los Angeles! Today's edition of Finds is a little shorter because I'm in the midst of a jam-packed schedule of How I Write interviews. I