CJ Chilvers

Archive

Nov 2024

4: Recommended Reading

Nov 2024

2: Make the time.

Oct 2024

2: A little ain’t enough

Sep 2024

30: Brands became bands.

Sep 2024

16: When text wins over video

Sep 2024

8: “Don’t compete with yourself.”

Sep 2024

2: What’s your creative refuge?

Jul 2024

28: AI Burnout

Jul 2024

25: Does AI decrease productivity?

Jul 2024

8: Revenge of the Essayists

Jun 2024

23: New: Principles for Newsletters Paperback

Jun 2024

18: What’s with the hostility towards personal publishing?

May 2024

18: Embrace the carnage.

May 2024

9: Notes on The Newsletter Conference 2024

Apr 2024

24: This will sound obvious in 3 years

Mar 2024

31: Long Form = Long Term

Mar 2024

27: Why I went back to buying CDs (and you should too)

Feb 2024

19: Create like an Icelander.

Feb 2024

7: Read an Excerpt from Principles for Newsletters

Feb 2024

6: Behind-the-Scenes: Principles for Newsletters

Jan 2024

29: Principles for Newsletters

Dec 2023

14: Your favorite links of 2023

Nov 2023

13: Everything is an essay.

Oct 2023

12: Easier books and handsome home screens

Sep 2023

23: Indie Hope and Bankers Boxes

Sep 2023

19: The Wisdom of the Bankers Box

Sep 2023

12: Social proof is overrated.

Sep 2023

11: Enjoy collaboration…or else!

Sep 2023

8: “Don’t stay home.”

Aug 2023

28: The Best Newsletter in the World

Aug 2023

23: Never meet your heroes?

Aug 2023

9: Some Idiot Wrote This

Aug 2023

2: Creativity vs. Productivity 🥊

Jul 2023

26: Personalization is creepy.

Jul 2023

19: RIP: The External 🧠

Jul 2023

12: Thanks for the advice!

Jul 2023

5: Opens Wins

Jun 2023

28: Don’t mess with librarians.

Jun 2023

21: Publish or perish? Document or die.

Jun 2023

14: Why would you write a book in 2023?

Jun 2023

7: Do Personal Brands Matter?

May 2023

31: Want a Do-Over for This Month?

May 2023

24: The Books of No Excuses

May 2023

17: The Workspace of the Future Is a Workbench

May 2023

10: Your 3-Step Book

May 2023

3: Solitude Deprivation

Apr 2023

26: When Pay to Play Doesn’t Pay

Apr 2023

19: You’re not namedropping enough.

Apr 2023

12: Principles for Creating with AI

Apr 2023

5: Choose your stressor.

Mar 2023

29: They tricked us.

Mar 2023

22: Consistency is simpler than you think.

Mar 2023

15: Are you useful?

Mar 2023

8: The C Word

Mar 2023

1: Where were we 10 years ago?

Feb 2023

22: What do you have to offer?

Feb 2023

15: Brainless Tasks

Feb 2023

8: Your Smartest Dumb Tech

Jan 2023

18: How to Stay Creative Forever

Jan 2023

8: The Future of AI, Newsletters, and Your Garden

Jan 2023

1: 4 big questions for email marketing in 2023

Dec 2022

30: Is AI going to take creators’ jobs?

Dec 2022

28: Just a Series of Garden Offices

Dec 2022

16: The Stupidest Experiment

Nov 2022

18: Just putting it out there

Nov 2022

13: Surviving the Ad-pocalypse…Again

Oct 2022

10: Return of the Lazy Billionaire

Sep 2022

23: Having trouble starting your next thing?

Aug 2022

17: The Cures for Burnout

Jul 2022

13: Consumption is underrated.

Jul 2022

7: Why Nerds Win

Jun 2022

29: You are more interesting than you think.

Jun 2022

24: You’re Doing Email Marketing Wrong

Jun 2022

23: Why move to Ghost?

Jun 2022

22: The Most Useful Book Cover Constraint

Jun 2022

21: A Lesser Minimalism

Jun 2022

20: Be everywhere. But be your best here.

Jun 2022

5: Ghosting to Improve Relationships

Apr 2022

15: New Newsletter: How to Enjoy What Doesn’t Exist

Mar 2022

31: New newsletter: How Spring Break Broke

Mar 2022

28: A New Brand of Unsubscribe

Mar 2022

4: Is plain text best?

Feb 2022

28: New newsletter: HustleTrust

Feb 2022

23: The great personal newsletter migration

Feb 2022

7: New(ish) Newsletter

Jan 2022

18: Practical Ways to Post Something Every Day

Jan 2022

2: 35 Lessons from 35 Years of Newsletter Publishing

Nov 2021

27: Clarity is Expensive

Oct 2021

21: New Newsletter: Walking in Memphis

Oct 2021

14: The Importance of Giving a Shit

Sep 2021

26: Dave or Sammy? Ernie Ball or Kramer?

Aug 2021

21: Marketing Maps Vs. Marketing Plans

Aug 2021

19: Book Review: Four Thousand Weeks

Aug 2021

18: Take Note

Jul 2021

19: Can Your Desk Help You Organize Your Thoughts?

Jul 2021

1: Mies van der Rohe Marketing

Jun 2021

28: After, Not Once

Jun 2021

4: The Importance of Your Calendar

Jun 2021

2: Experiments Check-In 2

Jun 2021

1: A Good Philosophy for Personal Publishing

May 2021

17: Daily Lunch Notes Update

May 2021

5: The Problem with Newsletter Advice

May 2021

4: Generosity Comes from People

May 2021

3: Algorithm vs. Audience

Apr 2021

16: My Holy Grail Pen and Paper

Apr 2021

15: A Punch in the Gut

Mar 2021

25: Put relationships first.

Mar 2021

23: Ghost Resurrects, Haunts Substack

Mar 2021

22: For the Best Ideas, Go Without

Mar 2021

17: How does it make you feel?

Mar 2021

15: Trust Without Metrics

Mar 2021

14: MIQ vs MIT

Mar 2021

12: Public Speaking Tip: Get Angry

Mar 2021

11: Do subject lines matter anymore?

Mar 2021

9: My ADHD Wearable

Mar 2021

8: You Need 2 Things

Mar 2021

6: How to Get the 3 Things You Want Most

Mar 2021

5: Perfectly Designed Imperfection

Mar 2021

4: Seth Godin on Why You Should Start a Podcast

Mar 2021

3: Audience First Vs. Product First

Mar 2021

2: My Personal Publishing Principles for 2021

Mar 2021

1: Experiments Check In

Feb 2021

28: Get Your Ass Kicked

Feb 2021

27: 22nd Birthday Makeover

Feb 2021

26: 2 Dutch Sayings You’ll Use Every Day

Feb 2021

25: Reading Is An Action

Feb 2021

24: Practice Avoids Perfect

Feb 2021

23: Hey, World! It’s About Time!

Feb 2021

22: Ask.

Feb 2021

21: David Lee Roth Predicted the Future

Feb 2021

20: Why Chaos May Reign in Newsletter Design

Feb 2021

19: What should your personal newsletter include?

Feb 2021

18: How to Measure Your Newsletter’s Success

Feb 2021

17: RIP Email Again

Feb 2021

16: Have you ever met Eddie Van Halen?

Feb 2021

15: Experiment 2: New Newsletter

Feb 2021

14: Experiment 1: Sivers Style

Feb 2021

13: Default Apps for Productivity

Feb 2021

12: “You’re Wrong About…”

Feb 2021

11: Unexpected Design Playgrounds

Feb 2021

10: Welcome to my kinda meh personal site.

Feb 2021

9: 25 Years of Creativity for $200

Feb 2021

8: “Real” cameras lost.

Feb 2021

7: Daily Lunch Notes

Feb 2021

5: Who decides?

Jan 2021

23: A Love Letter to the Link Post

Jan 2021

18: It’s Time to Get Personal

Dec 2020

18: My Door Is Always Open

Dec 2020

17: Overthinking? Try this iOS Shortcut.

Dec 2020

14: How to Journal Every Day for 10 Years

Dec 2020

6: 9 Lessons on Landing Pages

Dec 2020

3: A Lesser Photographer Audiobook

Nov 2020

17: Write for a life.

Nov 2020

15: The Arguments Folder

Oct 2020

25: Things 3 Is Step Zero

Oct 2020

15: New newsletter: The king is dead. Long live Ed.

Oct 2020

12: Let's Keep in Touch

Sep 2020

27: New newsletter: Why ask?

Aug 2020

21: Be a Lazy Billionaire

Aug 2020

1: New newsletter: Giant Books and Paid Newsletters

Jul 2020

14: New Newsletter: Issue #256: Remembering Fun and Rest

Jun 2020

21: New Newsletter: Quick Father's Day Issue

May 2020

26: New newsletter: Issue #253: Begun the newsletter wars have

May 2020

21: The best business advice he ever got...

May 2020

13: A Lesser Photographer Gets a New Cover

May 2020

11: How to Get to #1 on Amazon (Or at Least How I Did It Twice)

May 2020

11: Review: Ted Templeman: A Platinum Producer’s Life in Music

May 2020

11: Newsletter Issue #252: 14 Diversions

Apr 2020

13: The Era of Perfection

Apr 2020

6: New newsletter: Issue #250 "Creativity in Anxietyland"

Mar 2020

31: "Suggestions for Staying Safe While Shopping"

Mar 2020

22: New newsletter: Issue #249 “Hunkered”

Feb 2020

29: Further Reading on Newsletters

Feb 2020

28: Examples of Newsletters Doing It Right

Feb 2020

27: The Future of Privacy in Newsletters

Feb 2020

26: Ask for testimonials.

Feb 2020

25: Pick a day, any day.

Feb 2020

24: Strategize long before you monetize.

Feb 2020

23: Meet your subscribers.

Feb 2020

22: Automate when it makes sense.

Feb 2020

21: The Smartest Things Ever Said About Email Newsletters

Feb 2020

20: Attracting Readers: Social Media

Feb 2020

19: Have a personality.

Feb 2020

18: Get started.

Feb 2020

17: Attracting Readers: Forwards

Feb 2020

16: New Newsletter: Creating Your Newsletter Week 2

Feb 2020

16: Go headless.

Feb 2020

15: Put your best link forward.

Feb 2020

14: Add your newsletter link to all the things.

Feb 2020

13: Recommended: Newsletter Ninja

Feb 2020

12: Be consistent.

Feb 2020

11: Don't call it a newsletter. Don't ask readers to subscribe.

Feb 2020

10: Attracting Subscribers to Your Newsletter: Lead Generators

Feb 2020

9: Recommended: Chimp Essentials

Feb 2020

8: Subject lines don’t matter as much as your From line.

Feb 2020

7: Conquer Newsletter Obesity

Feb 2020

6: Don’t personalize. Write like a person.

Feb 2020

5: Recommended: Do Open

Feb 2020

4: Introduce Yourself!

Feb 2020

3: Finding Your Favorite Newsletter Format

Feb 2020

2: Define Your Audience

Feb 2020

1: Why You Need a Newsletter in 2020

Feb 2020

1: Month of Daily Posts 2: Newsletters

Jan 2020

24: Can you publish a guitar?

Jan 2020

12: The Year in Review

Dec 2019

5: A Month of Blogging about Anxiety: The Results

Nov 2019

30: Survive

Nov 2019

29: Play

Nov 2019

28: Eliminate Extra Inboxes

Nov 2019

27: Get Lost in Music

Nov 2019

26: Declare Independence

Nov 2019

25: Go Camping

Nov 2019

24: Add and Remove Automations

Nov 2019

23: Paint with Light

Nov 2019

22: Quit Your Presidential Campaign

Nov 2019

21: Notifications Can Go Straight to Hell

Nov 2019

20: Put "You" Away for a While

Nov 2019

19: Break Up with Social Media

Nov 2019

18: Laugh

Nov 2019

17: Cut the Stimulants

Nov 2019

16: Collect Your Testimonials

Nov 2019

15: Apply Constraints

Nov 2019

14: Have a Drink

Nov 2019

13: Stop Scheduling Your Anxiety

Nov 2019

12: Exercise Your Brain

Nov 2019

11: Go Outside

Nov 2019

10: Create a Morning Pages Habit

Nov 2019

9: Journal for What’s Now

Nov 2019

8: My Hero on Halloween

Nov 2019

7: You Need to Sleep More

Nov 2019

6: Be Alone Without Being Lonely

Nov 2019

5: Test Your DNA

Nov 2019

4: Meditate

Nov 2019

3: Breathe

Nov 2019

2: Radical Acceptance

Nov 2019

1: Try Neurofeedback

Nov 2019

1: 30 Practical Tactics to Decrease Your Anxiety (Intro)

Oct 2019

28: Coming in November: 30 Practical Tactics to Decrease Your Anxiety

Oct 2019

20: Do You "Take" Photographs or "Make" Photographs?

Oct 2019

7: New Newsletter: Who Has the Best Personal Website

Sep 2019

20: Digitizing My Van Halen Archives

Sep 2019

5: A Lesser Photographer Now Available in Libraries and Stores

Sep 2019

4: Why keep old tweets?

Sep 2019

1: New Newsletter: Your Habits Create You

Aug 2019

28: How One Music Retailer is Beating Amazon

Aug 2019

26: A Lesson from the 90s in Finalizing Projects

Aug 2019

25: Library Tourism: Vancouver

Aug 2019

24: Your Habits Create Who You Are

Aug 2019

19: Images from Alaska

Aug 2019

2: New Newsletter: There’s no such thing as vegetables or continents.

Jul 2019

23: I Love Newsletters

Jul 2019

9: After You’ve Mastered the Craft

Jul 2019

5: New Newsletter: Consider Writing

Jun 2019

24: A Few Seconds in Utah

Jun 2019

22: Free Will in a Nutshell

Jun 2019

21: Violinists are Lazy

May 2019

28: New Newsletter: Build Your Personal Library

May 2019

15: Nobody ever says on their deathbed...

Apr 2019

29: Newish Newsletter: An Unlikely Fix for Media

Apr 2019

19: The Resurrection of DVDs

Mar 2019

28: New Newsletter: Be a Librarian

Mar 2019

27: Revisiting Ulysses

Mar 2019

25: Be a Librarian to Your Readers: An Interview with Austin Kleon

Feb 2019

25: New Newsletter: Why I Unsubbed 400 of You

Feb 2019

11: Which Note Taking App Should I Use?

Feb 2019

6: "Sources of Personal Competitive Advantage"

Feb 2019

5: Marie Curie's Notebook

Feb 2019

4: Why I Just Unsubscribed 400 of You

Jan 2019

31: Keep Going

Jan 2019

28: New Newsletter: Why do some people hate positive news?

Jan 2019

15: It's Getting Better All the Time

Jan 2019

11: Craig Mod on What Makes a Good Newsletter

Jan 2019

1: Get Published Podcast Episode 169: CJ Chilvers

Dec 2018

31: Thanks, Hamish!

Dec 2018

27: I Finally Made a "Now" Page

Nov 2018

21: New Newsletter: Talent, Hard Work, or Luck?

Nov 2018

15: Consistency

Nov 2018

14: The Value of a “Good Old Newsletter”

Oct 2018

22: The Mechanization of Knowledge

Oct 2018

3: New Newsletter: The New Edition of A Lesser Photographer

Oct 2018

2: A Lesser Photographer Second Edition Is Out!

Sep 2018

17: Should We Stop Listening to Podcasts?

Sep 2018

14: Finally! A Photography 101 Course I Can Recommend

Sep 2018

13: Using Ulysses as a Database for The Van Halen Encyclopedia

Sep 2018

6: Brian Koppelman: “Go Do the Thing.”

Aug 2018

30: I Launched a Book on Patreon

Aug 2018

30: New newsletter: What if you have nothing more to say?

Aug 2018

14: When You Have Nothing More to Say

Jul 2018

31: Does It Get Any Better than This?

Jul 2018

22: New newsletter: How to be the dumbest person in the room

Jul 2018

11: How to Be the Dumbest Person in the Room

Jun 2018

23: New Newsletter: Find a Better Problem to Solve

Jun 2018

12: The Creativity Bubble

Jun 2018

7: Seth Godin to the World: You’re Still Not Blogging Daily?!

Jun 2018

6: My Home Screen

May 2018

18: New newsletter: Make useless things

Apr 2018

27: Remember Photoblogging?

Apr 2018

24: Best Practices for Newsletters

Apr 2018

12: How to Not Die in the Next 10 Years

Apr 2018

3: Speed Still Matters

Mar 2018

25: Artist or Imbecile?

Mar 2018

22: Any Imbecile

Mar 2018

22: Questions

Mar 2018

19: Destroy a Hotel, Blame It on Journey 🎸

Mar 2018

8: Van Halen Destroys the 7th Floor of the Sheraton Inn

Mar 2018

8: Getting More from Your Calendar

Mar 2018

6: Productivity Addiction

Mar 2018

5: This Week’s Newsletter: The Key to a Happy Life

Feb 2018

20: Facebook is Delusional

Feb 2018

20: The Book Hiding in Your Blog

Feb 2018

17: A Free Mini Scheduling Course

Feb 2018

15: This Quote Scares the Hell Out of Me

Feb 2018

15: Being Accountable for a New Habit

Feb 2018

12: Evaluating Apps for My Next Book

Feb 2018

10: The Ad Model Reckoning Is Upon Us

Feb 2018

9: In the Unlikely Event of Whitespace

Feb 2018

5: "We Need Publishers"

Feb 2018

4: IBS Saved My Life

Feb 2018

1: You Don't Need to Start a Podcast

Jan 2018

31: An Update on My Most Important Daily Writing Assignment

Jan 2018

30: Welcome Back Blogging?

Jan 2018

18: Schedule Your Creativity

Jan 2018

17: The Continued Rise of Indie Magazines

Jan 2018

15: Resolve to not resolve this year

Jan 2018

2: The Camera is the Next Keyboard

Dec 2017

30: Does Google Miss Google Reader?

Dec 2017

9: There's Nothing Magical about Creativity

Dec 2017

9: Why Tumblr Was the Best

Dec 2017

8: Why Tumblr Was the Best

Dec 2017

7: Photo Safari

Dec 2017

7: The Creative Bar Podcast

Nov 2017

22: Has Photography Gone from an Introvert to Extravert Hobby?

Nov 2017

22: Chris Hardwick on Scheduling and Note Taking

Nov 2017

22: Austin Kleon on Blogging Daily

Nov 2017

22: Old Advice is New Advice: There Are No Rules

Nov 2017

18: My Most Important Daily Writing Assignment

Nov 2017

16: David DuChemin on Productivity

Nov 2017

15: The Future of A Lesser Photographer

Nov 2017

13: Ignorance is Bliss

Nov 2017

10: How to Balance Creativity and Productivity

Nov 2017

9: The Most Important Call to Action for Your Readers

Nov 2017

8: An Inbox for Your Time

Nov 2017

7: The Value of Attention

Nov 2017

6: My Favorite Newsletter

Nov 2017

3: The Message vs. the Book

Nov 2017

2: Behavioral Economics and Creativity

Nov 2017

1: Why You Should Work in Silence

Oct 2017

31: Chris Ducker on Time Management

Oct 2017

30: Legacy is a Sales Tool

Oct 2017

23: The Hierarchy of Online Consumption

Oct 2017

20: How to Podcast Daily

Oct 2017

16: Amateurs vs. Pros

Oct 2017

16: Field Notes HQ

Oct 2017

12: New Newsletter & Meetup: How is Film Like a Sailboat?

Oct 2017

4: Constraints work (on experts too)

Sep 2017

28: Every Age is a Golden Age

Sep 2017

27: My Dad Sees in Real Color for the First Time in 74 years

Sep 2017

25: 3 Courses I Bought This Year Even Though I Hate Online Courses

Sep 2017

24: This Week's Newsletter: 🍁 Goodbye Summer, Hello Again 🍂

Aug 2017

19: This Week's Newsletter: Move Near Water. Get Up Early.

Aug 2017

15: Stay Up?

Jul 2017

17: This Week's Newsletter: The Excitement of Being Dull

Jul 2017

10: Copyblogger Certified Content Marketer Course Review

Jul 2017

9: The Two Most Stress Relieving Sentences in the English Language

Jun 2017

21: This Week's Newsletter: What is Free Speech?

May 2017

30: Is It Unethical to Publish to Facebook?

May 2017

26: All Creative Projects Are 365 Projects

May 2017

25: Random Positive Reinforcement

May 2017

24: The Self-Imposed Deadline

May 2017

23: An Argument Against "Deep Work"

May 2017

22: If You Could Only Photograph One Subject...

May 2017

18: Listen Up!

May 2017

17: Eric Kim Quits Instagram for Blogging

May 2017

16: Book Review: Do Open

May 2017

12: I Was Wrong About Landscape Photography

May 2017

10: How to Enjoy a Vacation

May 2017

9: Self Awareness is Underrated

May 2017

8: The Bayles Exercise

May 2017

5: Why Relationships Matter More Than Products

May 2017

4: How to Stop Creative Paralysis

May 2017

3: Book Review: Designing Your Life

May 2017

2: Love for 16mm

Apr 2017

30: My Personal Newsletter One-Year Review

Apr 2017

28: The Romance of Photojournalism

Apr 2017

27: The Importance of Curators

Apr 2017

26: Trust Is Scarce

Apr 2017

25: Day One Revisited

Apr 2017

24: The Extraordinary Can't Exist Without the Ordinary

Apr 2017

21: A List of Reasons to Pick Up a Film Camera

Apr 2017

20: Content Omnivores

Apr 2017

19: Let It Out

Apr 2017

18: If You Still Haven't Started that Blog...

Apr 2017

17: The Gruber Model

Apr 2017

14: When the Right Tool for the Job is Wrong

Apr 2017

13: Family Photography

Apr 2017

12: This is a Real Writer

Apr 2017

11: What Can't Be Taught in Photography

Apr 2017

10: My New Business Cards

Apr 2017

7: Completionism is a Disease

Apr 2017

6: Thank You

Apr 2017

5: Something We Can All Agree On (Wisconsin Supper Clubs)

Apr 2017

4: Independence Day

Apr 2017

3: Billionaires Who Blog

Apr 2017

1: Laugh It Up Google

Mar 2017

22: The Importance of Being Small

Mar 2017

16: Being Creatively Lost is Awesome

Mar 2017

9: How Good is the President's Pen?

Mar 2017

8: I Like Analog Because I Am Analog

Feb 2017

14: Seth Godin on Why He Keeps Blogging and Creating Books

Feb 2017

13: Self Awareness

Feb 2017

1: Home Screens as Therapy

Jan 2017

24: Schedule Your Thinking

Jan 2017

20: Where the Herd Is

Jan 2017

20: No Worries

Jan 2017

17: Focus on Done

Jan 2017

9: My Rules for Publishing (2017 Edition)

Dec 2016

18: Finding Deeper Meaning in Photography

Dec 2016

11: The Biggest Regret of My Career

Dec 2016

9: Dave & Dave Unchained: Episode 9

Dec 2016

4: Are You a Good Photographer?

Nov 2016

28: Get Excited About Photography Again

Nov 2016

17: Book Review: The Revenge of Analog

Nov 2016

15: What Can I Do For You?

Nov 2016

11: Weekly Newsletter: Everything is OK

Nov 2016

9: When Quantity Produces Quality

Nov 2016

8: Everything is OK

Nov 2016

4: The Economy that Never Dies

Nov 2016

1: Independent Blogging is Healthier Than Ever and Still Dying

Oct 2016

31: Musicians Want Their Analog Tools Back

Oct 2016

27: Good Questions

Oct 2016

26: Mindful Reading...and Publishing

Oct 2016

25: Reasons to Buy Paper Books

Oct 2016

21: New Newsletter

Oct 2016

20: I Hate Your Work

Oct 2016

19: Work Hard and Be Nice To People

Oct 2016

18: The Stakes Couldn't Be Lower

Oct 2016

12: Big Ideas

Oct 2016

11: Bank People

Oct 2016

10: Photos from Sanibel, FL

Oct 2016

7: Photo Xperiment Podcast: You Are Not Just a Photographer

Sep 2016

22: Sabbaticals

Sep 2016

21: "Quit Social Media"

Sep 2016

20: You'll Go Blind

Sep 2016

19: Give It Away

Sep 2016

15: A Pessimistic View of Optimism

Sep 2016

14: Things are Getter Better All the Time

Sep 2016

13: The Future for Photographers

Sep 2016

12: Think Before You Share

Sep 2016

9: Bring Back The Hobby

Sep 2016

8: Making a Thing

Sep 2016

7: What You Can Learn from John Free's "3 Things"

Sep 2016

6: Sharing Family Photos

Sep 2016

2: The Biggest Lies You've Been Told About Photography

Sep 2016

1: Start Something Small to Build Something Great

Aug 2016

31: Why I Won't Sell My Books on Amazon

Aug 2016

30: What Are the Biggest Lies You've Been Told about Photography?

Aug 2016

29: The Importance of Leisure

Aug 2016

26: You Shouldn't Need to Be Forced to Respect Your Reader

Aug 2016

25: "Everything is a Link"

Aug 2016

24: What Do You Have to Lose?

Aug 2016

23: The Problem(s) with (Most) Online Courses

Aug 2016

22: Two Photography Tribes

Aug 2016

19: Poll Results: Your Favorite Social Network

Aug 2016

18: Back to School

Aug 2016

17: Erase the List

Aug 2016

16: Selling Ideas

Aug 2016

15: Thinking Slower

Aug 2016

15: Newsletter Sneak Peek

Aug 2016

12: "Artists Shouldn't Be on Social Media"

Aug 2016

11: Why Choose Film in 2016?

Aug 2016

10: Kill Your To Do List

Aug 2016

9: Empty Reading

Aug 2016

8: Photomediations: An Open Book

Aug 2016

5: How We See Art

Aug 2016

4: A Note about Notes

Aug 2016

3: There is Less to Life

Aug 2016

2: The Lost Art of the Print Envelope

Aug 2016

1: Print Publishers Should Learn from the Photobook

Jul 2016

29: The Benefits of Anonymity

Jul 2016

28: The Slow Death of Tumblr (and Medium)

Jul 2016

27: The Gell-Mann Amnesia Effect

Jul 2016

26: Personal Website Check-In (6 Months Later)

Jul 2016

25: Your Gear Does Matter

Jul 2016

22: The Future of Photography

Jul 2016

21: New Order: A Decluttering Handbook for Creative Folks

Jul 2016

20: Obsessed with the Ordinary

Jul 2016

19: Chris Marquardt Reads from A Lesser Photographer

Jul 2016

18: Stolen Ideas

Jul 2016

15: Lessons for Your Summer Photo Trip

Jul 2016

14: You Don't Have the Time You Think You Do

Jul 2016

13: Why Frederick Douglass Loved Photography

Jul 2016

12: The Hierarchy of Photography Publishing

Jul 2016

11: Get the Suck Out of the Way

Jul 2016

8: The Wrong Direction Couldn't Be More Right

Jul 2016

7: Science Says Buy Everything!!

Jul 2016

6: Organizing Your Paper Photos

Jul 2016

5: We Need Fewer Life Coaches and More Life Waterboys

Jul 2016

1: Photography as Therapy?

Jun 2016

30: How to Read More (and Better) Books

Jun 2016

29: Why a Nuclear Physicist Waits Tables at Olive Garden

Jun 2016

28: Which Rules Apply to You?

Jun 2016

27: Have You Scheduled Your Solitude?

Jun 2016

24: Driftwood

Jun 2016

23: What Are You Paying For?

Jun 2016

22: My Most Important Project

Jun 2016

21: The Advantage of Invisibility

Jun 2016

20: Turning Mistakes into Ideas

Jun 2016

20: My Best Work

Jun 2016

17: The Secret

Jun 2016

17: That Dude Can Roll

Jun 2016

16: Efficiency

Jun 2016

15: What's Next for You?

Jun 2016

14: What Photography Really Produces

Jun 2016

13: Why Photograph?

Jun 2016

10: Don't Worry About Your "Platform"

Jun 2016

9: Don't Cage Your Enthusiasm

Jun 2016

8: How to Photograph Fireworks

Jun 2016

7: "My Most Important Camera Feature is How It Makes Me Feel"

Jun 2016

6: Choose Your Audience

Jun 2016

5: Welcome to Summer

Jun 2016

4: Different

Jun 2016

3: Why You Shouldn't Blog Daily

Jun 2016

2: More on Blogging Daily

Jun 2016

1: Seth Godin Explains Why You Should Blog Daily

May 2016

6: Make a Thing

May 2016

5: Don't Follow Me

May 2016

4: You Can't Do That With a Phone

May 2016

3: Is Better Photography Inevitable?

May 2016

2: There Will Always Be a Better Shot

Apr 2016

25: Honesty Is Your Competitive Advantage

Apr 2016

8: The Romantic Locations Where A Lesser Photographer Was Written

Apr 2016

8: The Romantic Locations Where A Lesser Photographer Was Written

Apr 2016

7: Why You Need to Publish a Photo Book

Apr 2016

7: Why You Need to Publish a Photo Book

Apr 2016

6: Reader Question: Too Many Limitations?

Apr 2016

6: Reader Question: Too Many Limitations?

Apr 2016

5: Book Review: Deep Work

Apr 2016

4: Professional Photographers Are the .1%

Apr 2016

4: Professional Photographers Are the .1%

Mar 2016

10: CJ Chilvers With Honest Advice for Amateur Photographers

Feb 2016

10: Do Artists Need Websites?

Feb 2016

10: Do Artists Need Websites?

Jan 2016

20: Welcome new readers

Jan 2016

14: Value Your Time and Buy More Books

Dec 2015

26: Small Rebellions

Dec 2015

7: All You Need Is 1

Dec 2015

3: A Lesser Photographer Now Available for Kindle

Nov 2015

22: This Week in Photography Family Podcast #24

Nov 2015

20: The Only Photographer You Should Compare Yourself

Nov 2015

19: Experts Say That Theres No Better Time To Be

Nov 2015

19: Want Better Not More

Nov 2015

11: If You Feel The Need To Get Paid For It It

Nov 2015

10: Via Mike Rhode Check Out His Books

Nov 2015

9: Vincent Laforet Finds New Photos in Old Subjects

Nov 2015

6: Your Parents' Photos Are Better Than Yours

Nov 2015

3: TWiP Family 024: CJ Chilvers on Being a Lesser Photographer

Oct 2015

27: Welcome Back

Oct 2015

26: The Point Isnt To Be A Good Photographer The

Oct 2015

26: Call Me Prejudiced But When An Artist Goes To

Oct 2015

20: The More I Study Photography The More It Seems

Oct 2015

20: One Of My Snapshots Is Being Shown At This Gallery

Oct 2015

19: Sounds Familiar Looks Great The Stop Taking

Oct 2015

19: Via Clickittycat

Oct 2015

17: Yes Photography Is So Easy Its Ridiculous And

Oct 2015

17: If you wanted to ensure it lasted for 150 years – you’d choose paper.

Aug 2015

31: Your Biggest Advantage as an Amateur

Aug 2015

21: Don’t Have a Goal, Have a Direction

Aug 2015

14: Photography Mistakes That Aren’t

Aug 2015

7: Unlearn Photography

Jul 2015

31: The Least Photographer

Jul 2015

24: Stop Making Photos for Photographers

Jul 2015

17: Which Photo Best Represents You?

Jul 2015

10: Stare at Your Phone More

Jul 2015

3: Beware of Formulas

Jun 2015

26: “Mobile” Photography Doesn’t Matter

Jun 2015

19: 5 Good Links

Jun 2015

12: In This Week's A Lesser Photographer Newsletter

Jun 2015

11: The Ultimate Portrait and Wedding Photography Business Podcast: 119: CJ Chilvers

Jun 2015

5: "Make Me Nervous"

May 2015

29: Don't be an award winning photographer

May 2015

22: This Week’s Newsletter

May 2015

15: Experiencing life second-hand is not living.

May 2015

12: If you could give one piece of valuable photography advice to someone, what would it be?

May 2015

8: Read This Before You Blog

May 2015

1: What Are You Willing to Give Up for Photography?

Apr 2015

24: How to Avoid Photography Tips

Apr 2015

17: This Week's A Lesser Photographer Newsletter

Apr 2015

16: Making An Accomplished Photograph Is No Longer The

Apr 2015

14: "Photographer" Among Worst Jobs of 2015

Apr 2015

14: Stop Hacking Your Life

Apr 2015

14: OK, Your Camera is Better Than Mine. Now What?

Apr 2015

10: What Are You Wrong About?

Apr 2015

9: What Photography Is Now Has Almost Nothing To Do

Apr 2015

7: Helping Other Feel People Creative Can Be Way More

Apr 2015

7: The Science Of Why You Should Spend Your Money On Experiences, Not Things

Apr 2015

3: A Lesser Photographer Newsletter: Slow Down

Apr 2015

2: Give Your Camera to Your Kid

Apr 2015

1: Who’s the Fool?

Mar 2015

30: Slow Down Were All In Such A Hurry Pay

Mar 2015

27: The New A Lesser Photographer Newsletter is Out

Mar 2015

25: Police Body Cameras Work

Mar 2015

25: Are You Getting the Most Out of Photography?

Mar 2015

24: We Need To Get Comfortable With The Idea Of

Mar 2015

23: The Future of the Photo Book

Mar 2015

20: The Latest Issue Of The A Lesser Photographer

Mar 2015

20: Let Go of Legacy

Mar 2015

20: Chris Marquardt Reads A Lesser Photographer

Mar 2015

20: Ignore the Rule Of Thirds

Mar 2015

19: The Photographic Dictionary

Mar 2015

17: When We Celebrate The Act Of Creativity Regardless

Mar 2015

17: So, who are we making photos for anyway?

Mar 2015

13: Get Closer

Mar 2015

13: Anti-Photography Bill Introduced in Texas

Mar 2015

12: My Rules of Publishing (for 2015)

Mar 2015

12: Wordy Book Covers

Mar 2015

12: Believe Nothing No Matter Where You Read It Or

Mar 2015

10: The End of Creativity

Mar 2015

10: A Determined Soul Will Do More With A Rusty Monkey

Mar 2015

9: Trying (And Failing)

Mar 2015

6: A Lesser Photographer Newsletter

Mar 2015

6: Invent

Mar 2015

5: This Is A Nice Mini Documentary About The Large

Mar 2015

5: All You Need To Do What You Love For A Living Is

Mar 2015

4: In Doing Creative Work Do Not Start Your Day With

Mar 2015

4: Desire The Cameras You Already Own

Mar 2015

2: Why It Does Not Have To Be In Focus

Feb 2015

27: Like Me, My Life Depends On It

Feb 2015

26: Seth Godin on Blogging

Feb 2015

26: The Amateur Photography Agenda Is Pure And Simple

Feb 2015

24: Surprise!

Feb 2015

23: I Kinda No Longer Spend Money On Photo Gear

Feb 2015

19: Photography Tips from the Top Floor

Feb 2015

18: Will the Real Landscape Photography Please Stand Up?

Feb 2015

17: Verify Your Backups

Feb 2015

17: Shoot What Scares You

Feb 2015

16: Nonconformity

Feb 2015

14: My Experiment with Tinyletter

Feb 2015

13: Eddie Van Halen Gave A Talk About Invention And

Feb 2015

12: The enemy of creativity is fear.

Feb 2015

11: The Wall Street Journal Doesn't Get Photography Yet

Feb 2015

11: Its A Blizzard Out There Nobody Cares About Your

Feb 2015

9: “I’m a person of simple needs.”

Feb 2015

6: It Is Insufficient That The Document Be Easy To

Feb 2015

5: The Reviews Are In

Feb 2015

5: Dirty Lens

Feb 2015

5: Seven Tips to Craft a Better Visual Story

Feb 2015

4: When Snapshots Suck

Feb 2015

4: Science Has Great News for People Who Read Actual Books

Feb 2015

4: If you have a personal website, why do you have it?

Feb 2015

4: How to Be Grateful For What You Have

Feb 2015

3: Commodity Failure: A Rant

Feb 2015

3: The Longer I Do What I Do The More I Come To

Feb 2015

2: The Minute Someone Gives You A Map Is The Minute

Jan 2015

29: Sponsor: The Book and the Newsletter

Jan 2015

29: You Can Control Your Portfolio Allocation Your

Jan 2015

29: Eyetracking Photojournalism

Jan 2015

28: Solve More Interesting Problems

Jan 2015

27: Steven B%c3%b6hm Posted This On Twitter Today Good

Jan 2015

27: Have You Tried Making Yourself A More Interesting

Jan 2015

27: Im Sometimes Mystified By People Who Keep

Jan 2015

26: The More People Who Say They Hate Your Work Or

Jan 2015

26: Happy 60th Birthday, Edward Van Halen!

Jan 2015

23: The Problem With Digital Now Is Young

Jan 2015

21: Its Time To Change Your Thinking Your Day Job

Jan 2015

21: Hunter S. Thompson's Praise for the Snapshot

Jan 2015

19: Automation Kills Creativity

Jan 2015

17: You Cannot Tell What A Picture Really Is Or What

Jan 2015

14: The A Lesser Photographer Newsletter

Jan 2015

14: Craft and Vision Podcast

Jan 2015

14: Why Being A Lesser Photographer Matters?

Jan 2015

14: A Lesser Photographer: Escaping the Gear Trap to Focus on What Matters

Jan 2015

14: A Lesser Photographer: Escaping the Gear Trap to Focus on What Matters

Jan 2015

13: Your Storytelling Brain

Jan 2015

13: Why Storytelling Matters

Jan 2015

13: Why Narratives Win Our Hearts and Minds

Jan 2015

12: What If The Cost Of Machines Who Think Is People

Jan 2015

11: True Story The Nuns Were So Scary At My Grade

Jan 2015

9: I Feel That Snapshots Can Get Close To Capturing

Jan 2015

9: National Geographic's Photo Engineering Department

Jan 2015

8: Never Miss A Good Chance To Shut Up

Jan 2015

6: Over-valuing Potential

Jan 2015

6: Film Isn't Dead

Jan 2015

6: Ansel Adams Act Introduced in Congress

Jan 2015

5: How our photo obsession is threatening our memories

Jan 2015

4: A New Photographer Is Born

Jan 2015

3: One Could Hear Inwardly In Them The Gathering Of

Jan 2015

2: This Sums Up My Book Publishing Philosophy Now

Jan 2015

2: Have We Been Wrong All Along About The Superiority

Jan 2015

1: Eric Kim's Street Photography Resolutions for 2015

Jan 2015

1: Please Understand That Book Publishing Is An

Dec 2014

31: Possible Origin of the Rule of Thirds

Dec 2014

30: Favorite Books of 2014

Dec 2014

30: The Older The Technology The More Likely It Will

Dec 2014

29: Complaining About Dead Trees When You See Paper Is

Dec 2014

29: The Best Sites Are Often Designed With A Paper And

Dec 2014

29: Uses for Notebooks

Dec 2014

29: I Like Muji Notebooks And Muji Pens Because They

Dec 2014

29: Im Not A Luddite I Just Think Paper And Pen Is A

Dec 2014

29: For Thinking And Tasking Nothing Beats Good Old

Dec 2014

29: Paper Doesnt Crash

Dec 2014

29: I Think That As The Cameras Become Ubiquitous As

Dec 2014

28: Buy Experiences, Not Gear

Dec 2014

27: Computers Make It Easier To Do A Lot Of Things

Dec 2014

27: Grown Adult Actually Expects To Be Happy

Dec 2014

26: Enjoying An Unseasonably Warm And Sunny Morning In

Dec 2014

23: Independent Thinkers Should Not Expect Validation

Dec 2014

23: One Of The Symptoms Of An Approaching Nervous

Dec 2014

23: I Get A Lot Of Email From College And High School

Dec 2014

22: You Just Have To Live And Life Will Give You

Dec 2014

22: Use Your Mind To Create New Memories Dont Just

Dec 2014

22: Merry Iphonography Christmas

Dec 2014

22: Remember How Valuable Ugly Is When You Get To The

Dec 2014

18: Driftwood Lake Michigan

Dec 2014

17: A Very Visual Web

Dec 2014

17: Photobooks 2014!

Dec 2014

17: Winter On Lake Michigan

Dec 2014

16: Why I Don't Instagram

Dec 2014

16: Stay Frosty

Dec 2014

16: Shoot The Moment Not The Subject

Dec 2014

16: Why I Don't Instagram

Dec 2014

16: A Person With A Flexible Schedule And Average

Dec 2014

15: Often The Best Way To Solve Visual Problems Is

Dec 2014

12: Stormscapes

Dec 2014

11: The $6,500,000.00 Photo

Dec 2014

11: Mackinac Island Library

Dec 2014

10: Freeing Up Some Time for Photography

Dec 2014

10: The Smartest Things Ever Said About Productivity

Dec 2014

9: What's your best advice for entrepreneurs?

Dec 2014

9: Another Reason to Go Amateur

Dec 2014

8: As Soon As Youre Willing To Say Its Not For

Dec 2014

5: Don't Quit Your Day Job

Dec 2014

5: Fun Has Become Subversive We Need More Advocates

Dec 2014

2: Om Malik and Cole Rise

Dec 2014

1: "Stay Up and Make Something"

Nov 2014

30: Discomfort Is A Small Price To Pay For Brilliance

Nov 2014

28: Photographers Becoming Publishers

Nov 2014

27: Mathematician Solves the Hipster Equation

Nov 2014

26: "Less Works"

Nov 2014

25: Put That Camera Down

Nov 2014

13: Heres A Little Secret Nobody Wants You To Know

Nov 2014

4: The Best 120 Photographers Under 120

Oct 2014

31: Anything Looks Like Art On A Spotless White Wall

Oct 2014

24: A Man Is Born An Artist As A Hippopotamus Is Born

Oct 2014

23: John Gruber's Talk at XOXO

Oct 2014

23: How Storytelling Changes the Brain

Oct 2014

23: Mailchimp Introduces SNAP

Oct 2014

22: What Blogs Do You Follow?

Sep 2014

23: Composing Light And Shadows Fuck That Have

Sep 2014

3: We Pros Tend To Think Of Ourselves As The Most

Sep 2014

1: Do Whatever You Like

Sep 2014

1: There Is No Them

Aug 2014

28: The Invention of the Snapshot

Aug 2014

23: Forget Vision Forget Personal Style Forget

Aug 2014

22: I Delight In Photographs I Delight In Words I

Aug 2014

22: For All The Care You Put Into Artistry Visual

Aug 2014

20: Choose Wisely Life Is Short Nobody Gives A Shit

Aug 2014

20: There is No Digital Archival Format

Aug 2014

18: Stop being a tourist

Aug 2014

11: Words Want Images To Illustrate And Illuminate

Aug 2014

7: Orphan Buildings

Aug 2014

7: I Still Can't Be Ok With Just My iPhone

Jul 2014

23: The Dark Room — The Brooks Review Podcast

Jul 2014

23: The Dark Room — The Brooks Review Podcast

Jul 2014

1: Get People Upset

Jun 2014

27: The Demise of Aperture

May 2014

28: New Book

May 2014

28: Be a Publisher

Mar 2014

26: Storms

Mar 2014

19: Embracing Shadows

Mar 2014

7: The Best Photo Management Tool

Mar 2014

3: Cons

Feb 2014

28: Should You Have a Portfolio?

Feb 2014

27: The Amateur Advantage

Feb 2014

25: Unrecorded Podcast: We're Not Neanderthals

Jan 2014

27: Perfect Photos Every Time (video)

Jan 2014

15: Gearheads and Guitar Gods

Jan 2014

8: Are You a "Real" Photographer?

Jan 2014

2: Perfect Photos

Dec 2013

18: Productivity Kills Creativity

Dec 2013

6: How to Make Perfect Photos

Dec 2013

3: Unrecorded Podcast: Self Rescuing Princess

Nov 2013

25: Instagram As Fine Art

Nov 2013

1: Unrecorded Podcast: Like a Salon

Oct 2013

31: Undone

Oct 2013

31: Libraries Used to Look Like This

Oct 2013

30: Why Paper Still Matters

Oct 2013

22: Small Books

Oct 2013

22: There’s Nothing New Under the Strobe

Oct 2013

20: Meeting People Still Matters

Oct 2013

20: Seth Godin's Best Business Writing Tip

Oct 2013

8: The Snapshot is King

Oct 2013

4: The Unrecorded Podcast

Sep 2013

20: Newsletters

Sep 2013

19: And Don't Call Me Shirley

Sep 2013

4: Don't Be Precious

Aug 2013

30: What Directors Can Teach Photographers

Aug 2013

11: The Smartest Things Ever Said About Facebook

Jul 2013

23: David duChemin on Constraints

Jul 2013

19: "Visual Journalism" in the Instagram Era

Jul 2013

15: Photography is an Act, Not a Profession

Jul 2013

12: Is Total Automation the Future of Cameras?

Jul 2013

9: Support Your Local Photographer

Jul 2013

1: Photography is Not About Technique

Jul 2013

1: Does Gear Add to the Enjoyment of Photography?

Jun 2013

24: Live First

Jun 2013

22: Why Our Photos Are So Forgettable

Jun 2013

18: The Perfect Explanation for the Proliferation of Bad Professional Photography

Jun 2013

13: Putting It Very Crudely Creativity Is The

Jun 2013

12: Favorite Places: Starved Rock

Jun 2013

11: Charlie Rescued Me from Landscapes

Jun 2013

11: The Easiest Way Out of a Creative Rut

Jun 2013

10: Less Respect, More Freedom

Jun 2013

10: A Camera Is Just A Tool A Carpenter Using A

Jun 2013

6: Owning Your Writing

Jun 2013

4: Laid Off from the Sun-Times

Jun 2013

3: Demolition During Recess

Jun 2013

3: Should I Upload It?

May 2013

30: Photography Without Thought is Surveillance

May 2013

28: Look at This!

May 2013

23: For the Reader

May 2013

20: Get Rid Of All Your Best Weapons And Then You

May 2013

20: NASCAR Blogging

May 2013

20: Fancy Tools

May 2013

17: An Unexamined Life Is Not Worth Living But An

May 2013

16: Oscar the Minimal

May 2013

14: Are We Fetishizing Creativity Probably Author

May 2013

9: The Van Halen Encyclopedia Teams Up with VHND

May 2013

9: Go Into The Arts Im Not Kidding The Arts Are

May 2013

9: Why Adding Text to Your Photos is Important

May 2013

7: Sound Arguments

May 2013

5: Setting Artificial Limits

May 2013

5: It's a Problem Worth Having

Apr 2013

26: The News is Killing You and Your Art

Apr 2013

26: The Creative Advantage of Limits

Apr 2013

22: Buy a Fucking Camera

Apr 2013

15: Truth is Stranger (and More Interesting) Than Fiction

Apr 2013

11: It's Never Been Easier

Apr 2013

8: Photography vs. Art

Apr 2013

8: Photographer as Storyteller

Mar 2013

31: Worthwhile Reads

Mar 2013

26: Boredom is a Tool

Mar 2013

19: Amateur Media Will Win

Mar 2013

18: You Dont Have To Take My Word For It Heres Jack

Mar 2013

18: How Do You Know if You're a Talented Photographer?

Mar 2013

18: Your Nemesis is Closer than You Think

Mar 2013

14: Constraints are Inevitable

Mar 2013

12: Don't Worship the Masters

Mar 2013

11: The Rules of Photography

Mar 2013

5: The Pros Do Not Own Photography

Mar 2013

5: Your Photos Are Not Files

Feb 2013

18: Pro Photographers Discovering the Advantages of the Amateur

Feb 2013

14: Advice on Turning Pro

Feb 2013

8: John Jay on Creativity

Feb 2013

8: It's All for Rent

Feb 2013

7: A Deeper Look at Constraints and Creativity

Feb 2013

5: "Authenticity is the New Bullshit"

Feb 2013

5: Evan Calkins on Constraints

Feb 2013

1: Introverts Unite! (just for a while - don't freak out)

Jan 2013

28: Happy Accidents

Jan 2013

18: The Enemy Of Art Is The Absence Of Limitations

Jan 2013

13: Why Your Photo Blog May Be Failing

Jan 2013

9: After the Chores

Dec 2012

28: Winter is the Best Season for Color Photography

Dec 2012

27: If I Knew How To Take A Good Photograph Id Do

Dec 2012

27: Illinois' Anti-Photography Law is Finally Dead

Dec 2012

18: How to Get Around Instagram's New Terms of Service

Dec 2012

18: The Little Camera That Could

Dec 2012

12: No Amount Of Technology Will Turn A Mediocre

Dec 2012

11: 2012 Gift Guide for Photographers

Dec 2012

11: We Ride the Polar Express and It Stinks: A Cautionary Tale

Dec 2012

11: When Everyone Has Access To The Same Tools Then

Dec 2012

5: Saying Goodbye to Now

Dec 2012

5: Experience

Dec 2012

4: The Fleeting Moment

Nov 2012

21: My BFD

Nov 2012

12: Longevity

Nov 2012

6: The Folly of Jiro

Oct 2012

25: The Worthwhile Obsession

Oct 2012

9: Pleasure, Pain and Creativity

Sep 2012

24: Happy Anniversary!

Sep 2012

18: Inspiration is Scheduled

Sep 2012

12: Analysis Paralysis

Sep 2012

5: Day One

Aug 2012

28: How to Make Money with Your Photography

Aug 2012

21: Living It

Aug 2012

21: Carpenters Who Work Every Day With Their Craft

Aug 2012

14: A Truce for DSLRs

Aug 2012

7: The Self-Taught Humble Brag

Jul 2012

24: Nevermind the Whats

Jul 2012

16: When Pros Attack

Jul 2012

9: How to be Critiqued

Jul 2012

2: The following photographs are no longer needed

Jun 2012

25: Photographers and Phashionistas

Jun 2012

18: Every Day...

Jun 2012

11: We Need New Specs

Jun 2012

4: A Glimmer of Hope

May 2012

28: Declare Independence

May 2012

21: Be Honest, Not Truthful

May 2012

14: Pass It Along

May 2012

8: Site Updates

May 2012

7: Mikes on Mics (Part 2)

May 2012

7: Mikes on Mics Podcast

May 2012

4: "I only really shoot family photos."

May 2012

3: Go Ahead and Buy Expensive Gear

May 2012

2: "How Digital Photography School Became a Multimillion Dollar Online Business"

May 2012

1: On the Right Track

Apr 2012

30: What Film Does that Digital Can't

Apr 2012

27: Freedom Is..

Apr 2012

26: Specializing in Mediocrity

Apr 2012

25: Priorities

Apr 2012

24: Can a Story Be Told with a Single Image?

Apr 2012

23: Great Minds

Apr 2012

20: No Photographer Has Arrived

Apr 2012

19: An All-Text Photo Site?

Apr 2012

18: Mikes on Mics (Part 1)

Apr 2012

17: Everyone with a camera thinks they're a photographer

Apr 2012

16: The Pros Vs The Storytellers 2012 Edition

Apr 2012

6: This Week in Photo

Apr 2012

6: "Video Pokes Fun at the Growing Nikon vs. Canon Rivalry"

Apr 2012

6: “Creativity is a Verb”

Apr 2012

6: Instagram's Days May Already Be Numbered

Apr 2012

6: 10 Photographers You Should Ignore

Apr 2012

5: From Allthingsd The Four Most Popular Camera

Apr 2012

5: From Seth Godin Via Enough If Your Happiness

Apr 2012

5: If I Had a Hammer

Mar 2012

31: "Why I Print"

Mar 2012

31: Your Best Work

Mar 2012

26: Lightroom 4 vs. Aperture 4

Mar 2012

26: "The Ongoing Sabotage of Art"

Mar 2012

23: The World Is Full Of People Who Are Waiting For

Mar 2012

21: The Hobbyist's Dilemma

Mar 2012

21: Creativity Requires Time And Space Two Things

Mar 2012

18: I'm a HTMinimaList Nut

Mar 2012

16: You Have Everything You Need

Mar 2012

16: Personal Work

Mar 2012

10: Thinking About Men I Admired It Dawned On Me

Mar 2012

10: Award Winning Photographer Annie Leibovitz Was

Mar 2012

5: Rethinking Productivity for Creatives

Mar 2012

2: 52 Pickup

Mar 2012

2: "How To Become A Pro Photographer in 5 Simple Steps"

Feb 2012

27: It's a Boy!

Feb 2012

23: Productivity Isn't for People

Feb 2012

14: Work Alone

Feb 2012

14: Artists Work Best Alone

Feb 2012

14: Get Fired Everyday

Feb 2012

6: Appropriate Practicality

Jan 2012

28: The Ultimate Productivity Blog

Jan 2012

28: Toss Productivity Out

Jan 2012

28: "Let Go of Your To-do Lists"

Jan 2012

28: "Productivity is for Machines"

Jan 2012

24: Im Thinking There May Be A Market In Being The

Jan 2012

21: Pass Along Your Best Stories

Jan 2012

21: Free Time

Jan 2012

21: Access To Tools Is Easier Too Every Digital Tool

Jan 2012

19: Get Booed Off Stage At Least Once

Jan 2012

15: The Law of Productivity Methods

Jan 2012

15: Websites are Billboards

Jan 2012

14: 11 Random Thoughts From an Amateur Photographer

Jan 2012

12: Innovation

Jan 2012

11: 52 Tiger

Jan 2012

10: Reshoot Your Archives

Jan 2012

1: Do Not Automate Your Creativity

Dec 2011

31: I Can See Why Photographers Love The Thought

Dec 2011

31: Dont Worry About Being Better Than Anybody You

Dec 2011

26: The Lure of Diminishing Returns

Dec 2011

22: The Middle Manager Aesthetic

Dec 2011

16: The Best Photos of 2011

Dec 2011

13: Know Your Teacher

Dec 2011

6: Drive-By Photography

Dec 2011

2: Life Happens Between Frames If You Dont Put Down

Dec 2011

1: The Value of a Photograph

Nov 2011

30: Photo Stream's Hidden Benefit

Nov 2011

21: Update: The Lesser Photographer Manifesto Is Now Available on Kindle

Nov 2011

21: Ars Technica: Can the iPhone 4S Replace a "Real" Digital Camera?

Nov 2011

21: "We’re Not Drowning In Photography, We’re Getting Rich"

Nov 2011

21: No. Just No.

Nov 2011

17: How to Mess Up a Perfectly Good Camera

Nov 2011

14: Inspiring Photographs

Nov 2011

14: The More Equipment You Take The Less Pictures

Nov 2011

12: Why Pros Like Lesser Photography

Nov 2011

10: Enough

Nov 2011

7: Theory vs. Reality: How Photographers Actually Spend Their Time

Nov 2011

7: Press Photographers Going Lesser

Nov 2011

5: Tips from the Top Floor

Nov 2011

1: "I Just Want to Capture Images"

Oct 2011

31: Comfort Is Where Art Goes To Die

Oct 2011

24: Comparisons

Oct 2011

24: Storytellers

Oct 2011

24: Veteran Japanese Photographer Daido

Oct 2011

19: The Lytro Camera

Oct 2011

17: Amateurs Rule

Oct 2011

14: Chased by Constraints

Oct 2011

12: Expensive Cameras Only Make For Heavy Luggage In

Oct 2011

10: UK Man Investigated For Terrorism After Photographing Daughter In Mall

Oct 2011

9: Why It Matters

Oct 2011

6: What Steve Jobs Did for Photographers

Sep 2011

27: A Lesser Photographer - A Manifesto

Sep 2011

22: From the Archives: My Interview with Trey Spruance

Sep 2011

12: Productiviblah

Aug 2011

29: A Victory on the Citizen Photojournalism Front

Aug 2011

28: Louis C.K. on Why He Shoots with a Film Camera

Aug 2011

24: An Open Letter to Canon

Aug 2011

15: For Me A Great Photograph Is One That Really Says

Aug 2011

12: The Straightforward Solution Is To Present A First

Aug 2011

11: How Four Men with a Point-and-Shoot are Scooping Big News Outlets

Aug 2011

7: Captioning Photographs

Aug 2011

4: One Pen Addict to Another

Jul 2011

31: The Most Important Tool

Jul 2011

14: Olympus Says: Get a Real Camera

Jul 2011

10: Newsletter Announcement

Jul 2011

10: The Ultimate List of the Most Essential iPhone Photo Apps EVER!!

Jul 2011

8: Minimal Photography is Catching On

Jun 2011

30: VHE Updates

Jun 2011

15: Hypocrisy

Jun 2011

8: New Book: Microstock: From Passion to Paycheck

Jun 2011

1: Maryland Transit Administration Warned: Let Photographers Shoot

May 2011

26: The War on Photography

May 2011

12: Losing a Muse

May 2011

9: My First Web Book

May 2011

8: The Photographer Who Left a Newspaper, Started a Blog and Changed Photography Forever

Apr 2011

27: Productivity Starts with a Why

Apr 2011

27: Your New Resume

Apr 2011

25: A New Way to Rent Photo Gear

Apr 2011

17: What Groupon Can Learn from Itself

Apr 2011

7: Drawing a Blank

Apr 2011

6: Print This Email

Apr 2011

5: A Lesser Photographer Gallery Launches

Apr 2011

3: Why Journal?

Mar 2011

28: Sleep It Off

Mar 2011

27: Event Photographers

Mar 2011

25: The Ultimate Accessory

Mar 2011

18: Why Books Still Matter

Mar 2011

17: Poke the Box by Seth Godin

Mar 2011

12: Day One

Feb 2011

28: Thats The Disease You Have To Fight In Any

Feb 2011

15: Thirteen Days of Focus

Feb 2011

9: Levenger's Things To Do Sheets

Feb 2011

7: Back to Paper Follow-Up

Feb 2011

6: Skill In Photography Is Acquired By Practice And

Feb 2011

3: Fact Youre Willing To Walk More When You Have A

Jan 2011

29: The Best Songs of 2010 You May Not Have Heard

Jan 2011

28: Back to Paper, Back to Work

Jan 2011

24: Lesser Photography Contest

Jan 2011

15: The Ultimate Test

Dec 2010

17: Why you should always run out into a blizzard

Dec 2010

11: Writing Is An Endless Lonely Journey Into The

Nov 2010

29: Are You Trying To Tell Me That At Some Certain

Nov 2010

22: Heres What Life Comes Down To Not How Many Years

Nov 2010

2: Gear Is Easier To Talk About Than Vision

Nov 2010

2: The Sprocket Rocket Camera

Nov 2010

2: 7 Things You Really Don't Need to Take a Photo Of

Nov 2010

1: The Case Against Personal Blogging

Oct 2010

16: Get Pro Results From Your Compact Camera

Oct 2010

16: How to Take Better Pictures with Your Smartphone's Camera

Oct 2010

15: Information Overload Thats Not The Issue If It

Oct 2010

10: Lesser Photographer: Nathan Smith

Sep 2010

30: O2hvw5yvskb539iavakfh4rdntpdqg

Sep 2010

26: Lesser Photographer: Dezene Huber

Sep 2010

23: Lesser Photographer: Jeremy Edwards

Sep 2010

20: Call for the Best Lesser Photographers

Sep 2010

17: A Camera Like A Guitar Is Just A Box With A Hole

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31: If Youre A Writer You Dont Want To Be One Of

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5: The Photo Bubble

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27: Dumb Cameras Force Us To Be Smarter Photographers

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13: As You Look Through The Various Award Winners

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9: Tell a Story

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28: How Many Pictures Will You Let Pass You By If You

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22: The Funniest Thing About This Commercial Is The

Apr 2010

18: Not That Kind of Lesser Photographer

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9: Always Have A Camera In Your Hand Or Your Pocket

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4: Evernote Review (1 Year Later)

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3: Going Pro

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29: Every Time Someone Tells Me How Sharp My Photos

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29: A Few Low Tech Links

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22: Three Step Guide To Photography 01 Be

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20: A Low Tech Solution for Your Lens Woes

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14: Do You Know What Is The Most Valuable Asset You

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8: The Trip Back

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5: Cutting the Chord

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27: Making Things and What's Next

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22: From the Pocket

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21: A Lesser Example

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18: There Are No Guarantees That If You Work Hard

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14: Its Time For You To Start Chasing Better

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13: G11 As Wildlife Camera

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11: For Most Well Known Artists Limitation Of Some

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9: A Reminder for Those Considering Aperture 3.0

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4: When I Lost My Possessions I Found My

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31: 8 Tracks In A Camera Shop Window If These People

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28: Inherently We All Know That An Image Isnt

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26: Some People Love The Tools More Than The Outcomes

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25: iPhone Photo Contest

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24: Bald Eagle Photography With A Compact Camera

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21: Terrible Composition Bad Lighting Boring Colors

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17: Maybe you can't make money doing what you love

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15: 5 Reasons to Ditch Your Digital SLR

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14: I Was In The Right Place At The Right Time And

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13: How the Old Masters Got by with Point-and-Shoots

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11: What Too Many Photo Blogs Are All About

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9: I Find That More Often Buying New Equipment Is

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9: A Lesser Example Going Back A Few Months This

Jan 2010

7: The Best Camera

Jan 2010

6: If You Consider Yourself A Photographer As I Do

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5: DSLRs Are Not Always the Solution

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3: A Lesser Photographer Launches

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3: We Were Gonna Throw All Kinds Of Cameras Down The

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2: The Best Tool Is Not The One That Is Newest

Jan 2010

1: What is a Lesser Photographer?

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18: Music Press Report Interview

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16: Summer in Chicago

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8: Better Words

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28: Interview with Clyde Butcher

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