And reach 681,022 readers. — “So you want to be an author now?” my dad said when I told him I’d quit my teaching job to become a writer. He looked skeptical. I felt empathy for his doubts. I doubted my plan as well as he did. It was May 2020, and I had spent…

These resources can help you expand your brain. — “Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life,” Mortimer J. Adler said. I disagree. Books don’t magically make you live the good life. You can read a book a week without changing at all. Reading doesn’t help you per se — it’s reading the right books…

How to use this simple principle for you. — Books give you access to the smartest brains on our planet. And learning from the greatest thinkers and doers is your fast track to health, wealth, and wisdom. Yet, reading per se doesn’t elevate your life. You can read 52 books a year without changing at all. Social climber Dale…

And build a loyal online audience. — Writing consistently is the most important yet hardest part of building an online audience. If you’re starting out, you’re writing in the void. You feel as if nobody is interested in your work. You start to question why you’re even spending the time on it. I’ve almost given up hundreds…

They will help you improve your writing process. — When I started writing online, I thought you need the best equipment and tools to become a professional writer. I got distracted by all the options for upgrading my work setup. I believed you would need to invest plenty of money to write great articles. In the past two years…

A foolproof framework for great introductions. — If you write bad introductions, all of your writing time is wasted. People clicked on your article because you’ve written a great headline. But if you disappoint them with a lengthy beginning, they’ll never return for more. Instead, they’ll remember that your articles don’t deliver on your catchy headlines. And…

A clear blueprint to improve your writing. — Have you ever spent hours editing your article, wondering when it’s finally good enough? Most writers forget the opportunity cost of editing. The more time you spend editing your article, the later you start writing a new one. I used to try to make my work perfect. I spent 10+…

Mark Zuckerberg isn’t the inventor and other things worth knowing. — More than half of all asked adults have no clue about the metaverse. A majority feel uninterested and indifferent. But the question is not if you’ll use it one day, but when. If you’re among the 50,000 early adopters, you’re already using it. I’m among the laggards. I’m not interested…

Over 2 million people clicked on my headlines after I improved them using these techniques — If your headline isn’t good enough, no one will read your articles. Your content can be perfect. But you drive the audience into your writing through the title. No one clicked on my articles in early 2020. My headlines were as shitty as “The digital gap is increasing — we…