New newsletter: Giant Books and Paid Newsletters
Products over newsletters, Ghost over your CMS, and manifestos over notes — it’s all the latest newsletter [https://mailchi.mp/cjchilvers/issue-257-giant-books-and-paid-newsletters].
New Newsletter: Issue #256: Remembering Fun and Rest
Office gravestones, a book that isn’t for morons, and your first mistake as a writer — it’s all in the latest newsletter [https://mailchi.mp/cjchilvers/issue-256-remembering-fun-and-rest].
The best business advice he ever got...
Josh Morgan Brown, CEO of Ritholtz Wealth Management, on the best business advice he’s ever received [https://overcast.fm/+XutQNSKaM/19:38]: > “Make yourself useful. Go up the most successful person you can find and say, ‘What is the 20% of your job that you hate the most?
A Lesser Photographer Gets a New Cover
I loved the work Daniel Benneworth-Gray [http://danielgray.com] did on the A Lesser Photographer [https://amzn.to/2Z1kGxB] eBook cover, so I asked him to make a version of it for the print book, and now both versions have the same awesome cover design. The new front cover of
How to Get to #1 on Amazon (Or at Least How I Did It Twice)
The second edition of A Lesser Photographer [https://amzn.to/2WL9brx], my book on minimalism for photographers, went to #1 in the pro photography genre sometime this month. I wasn’t expecting it, so I wanted to figure out why it happened. It’s my second time at #1 in
Review: Ted Templeman: A Platinum Producer’s Life in Music
Ted Templeman: A Platinum Producer’s Life in Music [https://amzn.to/2Lfskwu] by Greg Renoff is the rare, all-encompassing autobiography that never drags. Ted explains what it was like to work with Van Halen, Aerosmith, and The Doobie Brothers, and how he helped shape their songs and albums. Ted
Newsletter Issue #252: 14 Diversions
Patton tells you to get weird, the worst solo ever, and the origin of the blurb — it’s all the latest issue [https://mailchi.mp/cjchilvers/issue-252-14-diversions] of my newsletter from this weekend. Sign up here [https://www.cjchilvers.com/subscribe] to get it before it’s posted on the
The Era of Perfection
YouTuber/Record Producer Rick Beato mourns the loss of imperfect music [https://youtu.be/L-8EbHkc8tc]: It does seem that there’s a new generation of anxiety-filled, perfection-seekers topping the charts. But what’s topped the charts has rarely been what’s interesting to the devoted fans/evangelists of any art