Medley 67: How to Learn Digital Marketing, Elk vs. Moose, The Pharma Bro, “Antique” Photos…
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Happy Monday! If you were in a place to see it, I hope you enjoyed the eclipse.
New Article: “How to Learn Digital Marketing for (almost) Free in 6 Months”
The title says it all. This is one of the questions I get most often, and after sending a bunch of different thoughts and notes over the years, I compiled it into one article that anyone could use to get up and running with digital / Internet marketing very quickly.
New Episode: “Are You An Excellent Sheep? A Chat with William Deresiewicz”
I reached out to William (Bill) since I loved his book “Excellent Sheep” and wanted to share some of the concepts with the podcast audience. Whether or not you’ve read the book, this is an excellent conversation about learning to think for yourself and get outside the normal college track.
New Lessons: More photography this week since I’ve been traveling in Colorado and Idaho, “Landscape Photography II: Advanced Tools and Techniques on Skillshare”, and “Landscape Photography III: Pro Editing with Lightroom and Photoshop on Skillshare”
The transcripts from Martin Shkreli are as hilariously brutal as you’d expect them to be.
Neil Soni had a great article last week on “The Optionality Trap.” It’s along the lines of ideas I’m seeing more of, encouraging people to avoid trying to over-optimize for options and freedom since it leads to unhappiness, flightiness, and indecision.
This guy makes model cars and then photographs them into real places to create an antique look. It’s very cool.
After a debate with my family, we discovered that the name “Elk” is a little confusing. In Europe, an “Elk” is what we call a Moose in America, but in America, an Elk is an entirely different animal, also called a Wapiti.
How soon will the planet be too hot for us? Possibly sooner than we think. Though, predictions of these kinds of things tend to be over aggressive…
A very old article, but just as relevant (maybe more relevant) today as it was in 1927. Not enough negative results are reported in science, and that significantly skews the interpretation of positive results.
Have a great week,
Nat
P.S. Thank you to Héctor for sending me an advanced copy of “Ikigai: The Japanese Secret to a Long and Happy Life”!
