John Wedding 
Because your primary quest will get lonely A SMART focused goal that’s written down is a powerful motivator. Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Realistic, and Time-Bound all combine to make a goal that’s a stretch but is also doable. My primary goal for the next few months is to earn $100 through the Medium Partner Program in … Read more
When it’s so easy to do better Paul Metcalfe surprised even himself when he sold a directory site. Here’s what he did: Paul woke up and the $1000 was on the way. This all happened over a few days. What a clean, quick, tidy, and profitable exit for a week’s work! Let’s contrast this with … Read more
It’s the way things usually get better My govvie day job is as a knowledge worker. Desk work, computers, and meetings for the most part. We manage tasking for our project in Jira, a popular tool by Atlassian. A colleague wanted some particular information to show up in a detail view. I figured out how … Read more
Aside from both being “very aggressive” I started playing online cash poker during the pandemic. At this point I mostly have the hang of it as an above-average recreational player and can cash out $50/month fairly reliably at this point. This year, I started writing in earnest on Medium and on my blogs. Here are … Read more
Passion to profit is a transition from “Who are you?” to credibility Joe Forrest centers his writing around three passions. Doing this acts as a tailwind for content generation because you’re bursting at the seams to write about these topics. One topic I can’t shut up about This past weekend I was chatting with my … Read more
And it helped me to get the whole thing done in a pomodoro Tonight I realized that my writing efficiency sucks. I write at the wrong time for my energy levels. A lot of the recent articles I’ve posted have been in the wee hours of the morning, and that’s pretty much immediately after writing … Read more
They were a wee bit of a dumpster fire Segments and tagging are the primary way to divide subscribers into groups using the email list manager ConvertKit. I’ve built up, and pared down, a mailing list over the course of more than a decade. I’d gone through several email list managers before settling on ConvertKit. … Read more
YouTube, blogs, and Medium all can do the same thing. Some twenty years ago when I started learning how to make a buck on the Internet, I used traffic exchanges. I signed up for several of them in rapid succession under a veteran marketer whose name was Tony. After about five of them, he sends … Read more
And how to get paid along the way I wrote a book, once. It was my Ph.D. thesis, and it was over twenty years ago. I’m glad to have gone through that … once. Once was, and is, plenty. Godin, Pressfield, and Allen For my next book, I’ll do what Seth Godin, Steven Pressfield, and … Read more
Three actions to get rid of that giant sucking sound I’ve set a goal to earn $100 in a calendar month through the Medium Partner Program by the end of August. To accomplish this, it’s a fair assumption that I’m going to need to write more and write better, and build relationships with other writers, … Read more