- 5 years ago Sticky: Welcome to the /t/BES tribe! What exactly is this place?
- 5 years ago Sticky: Run a blog, vlog, or podcast? Start your own community like this one (but based on your topic of expertise/choice) and utilize the concept of “strength in numbers” to help you in awesome ways never before available.
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How Facebook clickbait draws users into engaging with posts
A study of 4,000 Facebook posts by news organizations provides unique insights into clickbait and user engagement.
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How Naps Can Jump-Start Your Creativity
When you're staring at a blank page, trying to figure out where to start a project, or where to take the next scene of a novel, you may find that the best way to get your creative mojo back is to take a nap.
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Better Than Perfect: How to Be Excellent
Exploring the difference between perfectionism and excellencism.
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Is social audio already dead?
Clubhouse has had a rough year, and it doesn’t bode well for the future of social audio.
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1,000 True Fans? Try 100
In 2008, WIRED editor Kevin Kelly wrote that creators only needed to earn "1,000 True Fans"—at $100 per fan, per year—to make a living. I propose an update.
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WordPress sites getting hacked ‘within seconds’ of TLS certificates being issued
Attackers pounce before site owners can activate the installation wizard
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The Magic of Atomic Habits
A 5-minute essay about the long term benefits of small (atomic) habits.
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Why You're Not Doing Creative Work
And how to start again even if you don't have time
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Why RSS is useful and important
Let’s say I want to be an informed, engaged local citizen. Let’s say my town has a website set up where they post local updates and alerts that I might care about...
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Why Creativity And Data-Driven Are Not Mutually Exclusive In Today’s Creator Economy
Valued at over $104.2 billion, the creator economy continues to drive the influencer marketing industry in a way that brings questions involving creativity and user data to the table. However, they don't have to be mutually exclusive, but mutually reinforcing.
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Effortless personal productivity (or how I learned to love my monkey mind)
I recently discovered a simple step-by-step process that significantly increased my personal productivity and made me happier along the way.
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Alex Lieberman: Building A $75 Million Digital Media Empire - Hakune
Alex Lieberman unpacks how he built morning brew to a 75 million dollar digital media empire
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Substack Is Now a Playground for the Deplatformed
The company’s CEO says the old way of social media is broken—but is his alternative much different?
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Brutal WordPress plugin bug allows subscribers to wipe sites
A high severity security flaw found in a WordPress plugin with more than 8,000 active installs can let authenticated attackers reset and wipe vulnerable websites.
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The creator economy is not failing to spread the wealth
It's not true that only 1% of aspiring creators succeed.
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How to Finally Remove Annoying Followers on Twitter
No need to block anyone, now you can just quietly remove them from following your account.
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Tim Cook Wants Apple Devices to Be Used for Creativity, Not 'Endless, Mindless Scrolling'
In a new interview, Apple CEO Tim Cook said he's worried about the "endless, mindless scrolling" behavior that social media inspires...
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Everything Is Difficult. So What?
The Greater the Difficulty, the Greater the Glory!
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Facebook and Twitter ‘should use volunteer moderators’ says Wikipedia founder
Jimmy Wales says social media companies should follow the digital encyclopedia’s approach
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How I wrote this 1000 word blog post, using speech-to-text on my smartphone, and in under an hour.
And it was easier and more fulfilling than I thought it would be!