As part of my year-end review, I always review my favorite reading of the year. These usually tend to be “long-form” online essays diving de
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This is a comprehensive guide to creating a profitable online course, based on my experience developing 6 courses over 7 years, which have b
Hi Praxis subscribers! Welcome back to the fourth installment in Tiago Forte’s series on P.A.R.A., the organizational system he uses to orga
I previously described how the weekly review is an operating system, funneling each bit of information you captured during the week to its p
Welcome to the Project List Mindsweep, a step-by-step exercise to help you properly identify every project in your work and life. Your Proje
What if you could push a button and immediately be given an idea? Not just any idea. A good idea. An idea relevant to your interests, your g
In Part 1, I argued that curating the content of others was an excellent way to start creating content of one’s own, whether your goal is ad
In Part 1 of the Going Nomad series, I explained why my partner Lauren and I are moving to Mexico at the end of the year. In Part 2, I’ll te
I recently interviewed Weihaur Lau of Created Living, a health and wellness-based coaching program for leaders. Weihaur’s coaching business
In Part 13, we looked at the benefits of Component Thinking, which involves thinking of any product we are working on as made up of subcompo
In Part 11, I introduced the concept of a “critical path” of tasks in a project, and the rationale for pushing tasks as late as possible on
A Nine-Part Series, from Concept to Launch
One of the most exciting trends in coming years will be the formation of cooperative working groups made up of independent contractors. Whe
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In Part 6, I recommended treating any deliverable (whether it’s a simple email all the way to a full-fledged product) as a series of evoluti
In Part 7, I argued for the importance of interacting with information, instead of just passively consuming it. Interaction results in bette
In The Four Pathways of Modern Book Publishing, I described the main routes for a writer to get published today, and in The Case for Traditi
My partner Lauren and I are moving to Mexico City later this year. This post explains why, both to clarify for myself, and to be able to sha
After you’ve written your proposal and sent it to publishers, the future of your book is in their hands. If you’ve done your job effectivel
This is a presentation and Q&A with Julia Beauchamp, a public speaking coach I recently worked with for an important speaking gig. Her
Over the past year, I’ve seen P.A.R.A. implementations of all shapes and sizes. I’ve seen them from every corner of the globe, in languages
Now it’s time to look at the JIT Project Manager’s toolkit. How do we put these ideas into practice in our day to day work? Through Workflow
In Part 19, I argued that continuously finding new sources of motivation was the most important challenge for knowledge workers, and that th
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