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Book review: Your First 1000 copies – a guide to marketing books
Last night I read Your First 1000 copies: The step by step guide to marketing your book by Tim Grahl…
New site feature: Control My Mind (Ask Berkun)
I’ve been working with the folks at FreshMuse on a new feature: Mind Control. I’ve always enjoyed Q&A with you…
Movie review: Tales From The Script (The business of writing films)
Screenwriting is hard, but what’s harder is selling a screenplay and getting a film made. The best documentary I’ve…
How Do You Build a Culture of Healthy Debate?
From Monday’s pile of questions reader Ev Larsen asked: Assumptions have an unnerving way of becoming facts and received wisdom…
When to quit working for a bully?
From Monday’s question pile an anonymous reader asked: After five years of consulting I accepted a full time job with a…
Should you self publish your first book?
From Monday’s question pile reader Gutenberg Neto, who has one of the best names ever for questions about publishing, asked: After releasing books…
Book Review: Designing Together
I was honored to write the forward for Dan Brown’s new book, Designing Together, because I thought it was excellent.…
How to Find Your Niche In Life
From my Monday question pile Jennifer asked: How do you find your niche in life? This seems like a simple question but…
My process for blogging
From my Monday question pile, my friend Angela asked: As an active blogger and communicator, I’m curious your setup. Obviously…
Q&A Monday: ask me your questions
Here’s an experiment: what question do you want me to answer? Something you want advice on? A topic you…
Changing your life is not a (mid-life) crisis
“Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.” –…
The Year Without Pants: early praise and reviews
It’s been an amazing journey writing a book about my year working for WordPress.com. Now in the last three…
How To Write a Second Draft
As I’ve been working on The Year Without Pants, I wrote recently about how to revise a first draft,…
Book Review: Good Prose – The Art of Non Fiction
I gave a talk at WordCamp Seattle recently about writing. One point I made was the limitations for improving…
How Pulp Fiction was written (and rejected)
From Cinephillia and Beyond, this comment from Roger Avary, who co-wrote Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction with Tarantino: We just took…
The Meaninglessness of Google Glass
“The more we elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate.” – J. B. Priestley [Update 1/16/15: Google…
Would you hire me? Resume from 1994
In going through old boxes I found this resume from 1994. And a wave of bad memories returned. I had…
When In Doubt, Make a List
The most helpful action when feeling overwhelmed is to make a list. Lists do many good things for our…
Are you important? (Emotions vs. Actions)
When people say “you know you are important to me” the best answer is “I don’t know.” Think about…