100 Insanely Interesting People You Should Know

It’s a cultural instinct to wait to get picked. To…

Why Business School Teaches You Nothing About Running a Business

Contrary to popular belief business school doesn’t teach you a thing about how to run a business. It teaches you how to be a great employee in someone else’s.Of course there are probably exceptions like Babson and a few…

The Year I almost Quit

At the start of 2014 my life was changing at a rather unexpected pace.

• The blog I had started in 2009 had evolved far beyond where it had started.
• I’d written a self published Wall Street Journal Best Seller, and been on the Glenn Beck…

7 Simple Daily Actions That Will Make You Happier and More Productive

Happiness and productivity are birds of a feather. When you’re happy, you’re more productive, and when you’re more productive you’re happier. Like all things in life we have overcomplicated the shit out of this.

Create What You Want to Consume

Creative ambition isn’t really about achievement, prizes, and nods of societal, parental or artistic approval. Those things are byproducts. What creative ambition is really about is satisfying a need to make things, and keep making them until they don’t suck.

Shitty First Sentences

People tend to look at successful writers, writers who are getting their books published, and maybe even doing well financially, and think they sit down at their desks every morning feeling like a million dollars, feeling great about who they are and how much talent they have and what a…

INSPIRATION AND HOKEY NEW AGE BULLSHIT: THINGS PROLIFIC WRITER’S DON’T WAIT FOR

“Can we find another word other than inspiring to describe this. I hate that word?” This is the beginning of a dialogue between me and my business Brian Koehn as we attempt to write pieces of…