The Newsroom

Fancy yourself a writer but having trouble finding time to write much? What if there was a methodical structure you could use to help you let 10,000 words per day flow out of your hands?

If you’re reading this, you like learning and know the value that being a perpetual learner has for your business. We all have our preferred methods of taking in new information. For many of us, it’s reading great books.

Holy moly does the world feel crazy right now, eh? School is starting, Delta is spreading like crazy, Afghanistan is in chaos, climate change induced fires and floods are happening all around, and there’s no new seasons of Game of Thrones to look forward to. It’s a mess. At least once in a while we could escape to Westeros for an hour and forget about everything back in real life.

You’ve heard me say this more than once: building and running an online business that turns your knowledge into money isn’t easy. I say it often because it’s true and because many people who start on this journey started because some crafty marketer told them it was easy to make 6-figures in 6 months selling online courses. We know that’s not the truth, though, right?

As I suspected and wrote about a few months ago, the newsletter author exodus from Substack has begun. (This is my first tech prediction to come true, so I get to call myself a “futurist” now, right?) Substack might be easy to use, but they take a large cut of paid newsletter earnings, and apparently they aren’t moderating what’s being published on their platform as they said they would.

Hey friend, I’m on vacation now, trying to keep my laptop closed as much as I can. But I love writing to you so much that I couldn’t help it. So I opened the laptop…and the newsletter below happened.