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Beating Pre-Talk Nerves

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Canonical Everything

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Dancing With Your Fears

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Engineering Financial Space

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Growth Accounting

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Homework for Life

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Location and Action Openers

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Manufacture the Story You Belong In

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Micro and Macro Barrier Removal

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Perfect Execution Before Judging Strategy

Diagnose people/process first, and only re-evaluate strategy once execution is perfect.

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Pitch the Freelancer, Not the Editor

The hungriest, most reachable writer at an outlet is usually the freelancer — target them, not the busy staff editor.

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Press as a Trophy, Not a Megaphone

The value of coverage is often the 'as seen in' validation you deploy yourself — not the readership.

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Problem-Solving Story Over Success Story

Editors reject polished wins — lead with the challenge you faced and how you got through it.

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Reverse-Engineer the Publication's Mission

Editors serve their audience, not you — decode who each outlet serves, then fit your story to that mission.

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Ship, Quit, and Learn

Design the smallest thing you can ship that is built to be quit — then let shipping it tell you what's next.

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Speaking with Adjacency

To explain something dull, tell a story about something else, then snap it into place.

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The 3-of-500 Months Sabbatical

Frame a sabbatical as 3 months out of a ~500-month working life, and budget 6-8 weeks just to unwind.

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The Agreeable/Giver Hiring Matrix

Prize the disagreeable giver; beware the agreeable taker on your team.

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The Decision Meeting Operating System

Pre-read 24h before, three options plus a recommendation, a traffic-light table, notes 24h after.

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The Energy Audit

After every activity, log energised or drained — then do more of one and less of the other.

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The Five-Second Moment

Build every story around one instant of transformation or realization, and start at the end.

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The Five Stakes Tools

Five devices — elephant, backpack, breadcrumb, hourglass, crystal ball — that make an audience wonder what happens next.

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The Four Engines of Attention

Stakes, surprise, suspense, and humor are the only four things keeping a business audience listening.

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The Human Customized Pitch Email

A short, human, story-first email that proves it was written for this one person — not a mass blast.

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The Life MBA Reframe

Set a runway budget, name it an investment in yourself, and give people a socially legible story for it.

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The Path Expert Conversation

Find someone a few years ahead on the path you're curious about, and offer them written questions.

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The Personal Interest Inventory

Catalog the facts about yourself by reach and intensity, then weave them strategically into how you speak.

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The Power of Yes

Say yes to what scares you — a yes can always become a no, but a no forecloses the door forever.

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The Press-as-Fundraising Filter

Only pursue press when you can name a specific business job it will do — same discipline as raising money.

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The Rallying Activation Metric

The value of an activation metric is shared clarity, not statistical precision.

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The School Pyramid Simplification Method

Build a curriculum from kindergarten to PhD to make a gnarly project comprehensible.

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The Three-Hour Work Mindfulness Experiment

Steal three hours from a workday, do something purposeless, and study the guilt that shows up.

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The Three-Point Story Test

A real story must contain change, pass the dinner test, and be about you.

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Understand, Identify, Execute

Instrument the data first, find the drop-offs, then build products to fix them.

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