From the Web
Entrepreneurs Don’t Take Risks – Tim Ferriss posts a book excerpt claiming the standard myth about starting a business (that entrepreneurs are daredevil risk-takers) is completely false. He uses Bill Gates life as an example, showing how a series of small starts pushed him towards starting one of the largest companies in the world.
From the Archives
Relax Without Feeling Lazy: Kill Open Loops – “Stop working on open-ended tasks. These waste your time, cause procrastination and accomplish little. Open-ended tasks are any tasks that don’t have a clear end point. They are activities like ‘studying’, ‘working’ or ‘putting on finishing touches’. They don’t have a stopping point where you can clearly say, ‘I’m done.'”
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Free: The Future of a Radical Price
The business model Anderson describes is the one I run, in micro form, here on this website. Ninety-five percent of my writing is given to you, free of charge. Only another 5% do I package into in-depth guides to support my income. Far from seeing the 95% as a gift, I see it as a necessary marketing expense to connect with an audience low on attention.
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