If you treat it right your Social Media Feeds can serve you up some of the most delicious insights & ideas. — Most people treat their social media feeds as a chance to check out of life for a while. But hiding in those dopamine-inducing screens can be some of your juiciest insights as a creator. For instance, today while casually scrolling through my Twitter feed I had three separate pretty powerful…

For 10 years I was a wannabe creator. Starting creative projects, only to have them fizzle out time after time. And because I solve problems by building systems, I convinced myself that if only I had a better content creation system I would eventually succeed. But no amount of tweaking…

Everyone tells you to follow the signals as a creator but what does that really mean? If you’re writing (or creating anything) online then you have a distinct opportunity that no other writer has had in the past. You get to write with your audience. These days you don’t have…

I’ve been building my personal creator brand for the last 2 years. In 2 years I’ve grown from a following on Twitter from 0–20k and people are always asking me what the secret key or tactic or hack to unlock growth is & it’s really very simple… It’s a dead…

I write much more for myself than I ever do for you (sorry, but not sorry). That’s right, what you read on my feed or my newsletter or here on Medium is only a small fraction of what I actually write each day. Because writing solely for production as a…

I almost wasn’t able to write such a glowing review of 2022. It was October and I was nowhere near reaching the (very reasonable) goals I had set for myself. And then quite unexpectedly, in just 5 days my whole trajectory changed. This is going to be a two-part post…

One of the biggest mistakes I made as a wannabe creator was not building a system for generating new ideas. Sure I kept a list of ideas that I wanted to write about. But it got short really fast! The key to longevity as a creator is building a system…

Be honest, how many of your tweet bookmarks do you go back and look at? Judging from the tweets I’ve seen in the last few days the answer is… very little. It seems most of us are hitting that bookmark button but just don't have a good system to get…

I held myself back for so many years from jumping into the creator economy because I didn’t feel like an ‘expert.’ Even though in the age of the internet anyone can turn on a camera or put words on a page we still have this mindset that we must have…