Ryan Holiday

What Is It Exactly That You Do All Day?

That’s why you didn’t update your blog for but twice this year? Why you had to take a sabbatical from work but you still haven’t release that album yet? Is that why your thesis isn’t finished yet?

I Work All The Time — And That’s A Good Thing

“Do you have time to meet for coffee?” A “kick-off conference call?” “A sales pitch?” Conferences built around buzzwords and charlatans? No thanks man.

Your Job In Marketing & PR Is Dead in the Water

These guys are called growth hackers. They built Facebook and Twitter and Airbnb and Dropbox and Instagram and a bunch of other billion dollar companies using techniques that you can’t learn in school.

Hell Is Other People, And Other First World Miseries

The saying is also incomplete. Because while people can be quite awful, there are plenty of other ordinary, petty tortures. Nor is fair to say “people” when it is much more clearly certain people, doing certain things.

31 Of The Most Underrated Little Pleasures You Probably Forget To Notice

Seeing a kid–like we’re talking 6 and under–who is way cooler and has way more swag than you ever will.

Fight Club Moments

The words threw me back slouched in my chair, speechless and dumbfounded.

Here’s Some Marketing Advice: Your Product Sucks

I’ve felt with a few old school publicists and marketers myself and look occasionally they’ll surprise me with the ability to call up some old friend and place some story and I’ll think, “Wow I wish I had that power,” but I don’t. I don’t think many people do anymore.

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