How do you promote your book with Twitter? It’s not necessarily obvious, especially for those of us who are writers and scholars first and foremost. But publishers aren’t doing much for new authors anymore, so you have to do it yourself.

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Until recently, in Twitter you had to burn a lot of characters retweeting people. Twitter fixed that, but also destroyed a lot of the social proof one got from a retweet.

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Lately I keep coming across Goal Merchants, people from the Tony Robbins set who imbue goal-setting with various magical powers. They make what I think are outlandish claims for the power of goal setting. Many still love to cite the study of Princeton grads. According to the tale, some years ago, a class of Princeton [...]

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At a certain point this year I found myself frustrated and feeling like I wasn’t getting anywhere on several different projects, while at the same time feeling like I was working too much and not having enough fun. I needed motivation, and I needed priorities. I came up with something that helps me with both [...]

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You have a great idea for a website, but you’re stuck making the first step. Here’s a super quick way to get up and running.

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