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2026 2

  1. The Birth of Paradise is Now Available!
  2. The Birth of Paradise

2025 19

  1. Frozen’s Lie: How a Tiny Detail Can Ruin a Story
  2. I Canceled My Family's Health Insurance (and joined CrowdHealth)
  3. To Be Useful You Must Risk Offending
  4. Don't Waste Your 20s Not Taking Big Risks
  5. The Past and Future of Vibe Coding
  6. Having Kids Has Been Far Easier and Better than I Expected
  7. The Little Kegel App that Could
  8. IT'S TIME! My Sci-Fi Thriller Husk is Now Available
  9. LAST CHANCE for the Husk Preorder Bundle!
  10. Only 1 Week Left for the Husk Preorder Bundle
  11. Quarterly Author Update: April 2025
  12. How to Outline and Plan a Novel
  13. Preorder My Sci-Fi Novel, Husk
  14. To Improve Yourself You Must Know Yourself
  15. Fast Cash vs. Slow Equity
  16. The Strange Fruits of Exploration
  17. Between Drafts: The Podcast for Writers and Aspiring Authors
  18. How to Build Your Own Software with AI (No Experience Necessary)
  19. Quarterly Author Update: January 2025

2024 25

  1. The Best Books I Read in 2024
  2. Why (And How) I'm Self-Publishing My Novel
  3. The Crypto Mania Has Begun. How to Profit & Understand What's Happening
  4. Don't Work Faster. Transition Faster.
  5. Quarterly Author Update: October 2024
  6. Avoiding the Prep Trap: A Key to Rapid Learning
  7. 7 Things I Learned Drafting a Novel in 26 Days
  8. 30-Day First Draft: Week 2.5 Report & Lessons
  9. 30-Day First Draft: Week 1 Report & Lessons
  10. The 30-Day First Draft Challenge
  11. The Most Useful Feedback Hurts
  12. Slow Habits
  13. How to Be (Reasonably) Hard on Yourself
  14. TODAY'S THE DAY!
  15. The Scariest Day of My Life
  16. My Masterclass on Better Storytelling
  17. 10 Things I Learned Losing 10 Million Dollars
  18. On Writing Better: 43 Things I Learned from My Insane 2 Years of Study
  19. Harry Potter and the Secret to Learning
  20. How We Designed a FUN Nonfiction Book Cover
  21. Crypto Confidential Pre-Order Bonuses!
  22. Traditional Publishing is Great, Actually
  23. The Window of Opportunity is Here
  24. This Moment is Your Life
  25. A Map is Not a Blueprint: Why Fixing Nature Fails

2023 23

  1. Announcing my Book: Crypto Confidential!
  2. Softening Our Inner Critic
  3. Make the Commitment You're Afraid to Make
  4. How I Finally Found the Magic of Meditation
  5. Do You Want a Happy Life or a Memorable Life?
  6. Getting Too Good at the Wrong Thing
  7. Insecurity Screams, Confidence Whispers
  8. It's Still a Long Game
  9. You Can Handle Much More Than You Think
  10. Proof You Can Do Hard Things
  11. You Have No Idea How Much Better You Can Feel
  12. How to Get Over the Fear of Creating Things
  13. 40 Lessons from 30 Years
  14. The Bad Goal of $5m by 30
  15. I'm Writing a Book!
  16. Great Writing is Invisible
  17. Using ChatGPT as a Writing Coach
  18. Maybe Your Sleep Tracking is Killing You?
  19. Kickstarting TikTok: 55,500 Followers & 7m views in 6 Weeks
  20. Cope as an Essential Life Skill
  21. Make Big Money Mistakes Early
  22. Sapiens is Good You Silly Status Monkeys
  23. Permission to Slow Down

2022 35

  1. The Best Things I Read in 2022
  2. The Childlike Love of Challenge
  3. You're Not Struggling Alone
  4. De-Atomization is the Secret to Happiness
  5. The Art of Fermenting Great Ideas
  6. What AI Can't Write
  7. The Road to Helldorado
  8. What Would Happen to You in a Book?
  9. Known Costs, Unknowable Benefits
  10. Eternal Problems of the Human Mind
  11. Four Great Decisions per Year
  12. How to Get Insanely Rich in the Creator Economy
  13. Ask Me Anything #1
  14. Work Life Balance is Impossible
  15. We're Much Weaker than We Think
  16. Paddling Through the Wilderness
  17. Raising Your Ceiling
  18. The Perfect Work Routine
  19. Breaking Up with Productivity Advice
  20. Choose Your Table Wisely
  21. When the Money's Just Too Damn Good
  22. In Praise of Giving Up
  23. The Great Books Project
  24. Most Afraid to Fail
  25. Book Review: The Odyssey
  26. The Locus of Entertainment
  27. Book Review: The Iliad
  28. Philosophy, Not Science
  29. Rats, Levers, and Parks: Designing Better Choices
  30. What if You Have it Backwards?
  31. Democratic Authority
  32. Leaving the Church of Science
  33. Addicted to Speed
  34. Embracing Time Against Anxiety
  35. Welcome to Infinite Play