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New newsletter: Why ask?
Consider “consider,” Ted Lasso on Sammy vs. Dave, and how to properly judge newsletters. It’s all in my latest newsletter [https://mailchi.mp/cjchilvers/why-ask]. Subscribe here [https://www.cjchilvers.com/subscribe].
Be a Lazy Billionaire
I was inspired to start updating my oldest available book, The Van Halen Encyclopedia [https://www.cjchilvers.com/the-van-halen-encyclopedia], by a few great ideas I’ve seen from others over the past month. I thought they might inspire you too. I began by updating the book in real time on
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
