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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
9/23/2023
4 : 14

Friday Finds (Experts, Text, Sloganeers, Sivers, Andreessen)

Read in your browser here. Hi friends, Greetings from Silicon Valley! I'm out here for a How I Write interview with Marc Andreessen, the man who single-handedly ruined college for me, when I
9/20/2023
16 : 14

The Question That Haunts Me

Read in your browser here. ​ Why do so many people spend their lives doing things they don't like doing? This question has haunted me for years. Growing up, it seemed obvious that work could serve
9/17/2023
12 : 24

You Were Made for More

Are you doing the work you were made for? If you don't like your answer, listen up. ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌
9/17/2023
12 : 24

Friday Finds (You Were Made for More)

Read in your browser here. Hi friends, I just published a short film. It's the ultimate distillation of the mission behind my work. Where has modernity gone astray? What's the magic of the
9/9/2023
1 : 44

Friday Finds (Genius, Tennis, Physics, Music)

Read in your browser here. Hi friends, My British friends use the word 'cheeky' and I honestly didn't know what it meant until two months ago when I looked it up on Urban Dictionary. Well
9/4/2023
21 : 24

The Man at the Music Festival

Read in your browser here. Hey friends, There's a viral video of a man dancing at a music festival. At first, he looks foolish because he's dancing alone. Then a second guy joins him, and they
9/2/2023
2 : 14

Friday Finds (GPT, Space, Radio, Fiat)

Read in your browser here. Hi friends, I was initially reticent to using GPT for writing. Now, I use it every day — and I've compiled the lessons I've learned into a guide for you. One major
8/26/2023
1 : 34

Friday Finds (D-Wade, Clickbait, Family, Launch)

Read in your browser here. Hi friends! What a week it's been. My new podcast called How I Write launched on Wednesday, and I'm still feeling hungover from all the buzz around it. I'll be