You can't - I repeat for those in the back, YOU CAN'T - sacrifice your health for the hustle. Regularly scrapping sleep/rest/recovery just means you do worse work and your success stalls. Step back, regroup, and get after it the next day instead.

Whether you're an author or a copywriter or whatever - you gotta put words on the page regularly to get better. Stop studying and start writing. (Preferably for clients.)

My favorite thing about Stripe is when they force you to "upgrade" your account, which means starting a "new" Stripe account, which means they're going to hold all your money for a week again and then your Instant Payouts reset. Again.

I also believe it’s the lack of writers growing up in these types of households. TV writers used to have pretty normal lives and they pulled stories from them when they got to work. TV writers today are all from big cities, with master’s degrees in creative writing, and don’t

I don’t nap much, but every nap I take either on purpose or on accident is well-documented in my wife’s Google Photos.

Yeah. Tried to rewatch it a few months ago and thought the same thing. It doesn’t make the point it’s trying to make.

I was just told by someone that they didn't sign up for my Solo Copy Empire program because "my X is dead". 1. If your only measure of whether or not someone is doing well is if they are posting on X... hoo boy. Good luck in business. 2. I've actually been super quiet on here

I had to buy condoms while on vacation in Myrtle Beach at a Walmart. Instead of being inconspicuous (even though I'm a married 40-year old), I had to push a button and have someone come help me because they kept the condoms locked up. Yeah, no wonder everyone goes to Amazon

"People don't hire freelancers anymore!" I have 5 calls with potential clients booked for next week. They all know my price tag already. Doesn't mean I'll get them all. Or any, even. But the opportunity is out there.

Oldest has been curious about Harry Potter. Doesn’t even really WANT to read it, but wants to know what all the fuss is about. Wife and I have never read them, either. Turned this into a new Family Reading habit - I led the family in reading Chapter One before dinner tonight.

As a dude who does not code, having AI in my back pocket for stuff like: fixing HTML, troubleshooting Docker containers, and automating simple tasks on my computer... It's life-changing. I don't say that lightly. I used to spend hours - sometimes days - on this non-productive

While you were complaining about the lousy freelance market today and how ChatGPT is stealing your job and driving down the value of a copywriter and whatever, I had 2 discovery calls with potential clients and booked one of them for a slick $5000. He sent his upfront deposit

Fully endorsed

Me: "I've been a copywriter for 17+ years and in finance for 14 of those years. I say that so you don't think I'm just some 20-year old who took a course and is DMing everybody to sell to them." New client: "No offense, but I didn't think you were 20." 💀

I read today that Zucker pitched sequels to The Naked Gun that included a spy version called “Naked: Impossible” and a “Naked Gun 4: Nordberg Did It” but the studio execs turned both down. Studio suits have ruined Hollywood.

Kid at my son’s t-ball tonight teases coach’s poor pitching with a classic “we want a pitcher, not a belly itcher!” Every dad and all the grandparents laugh. The kid’s mom angrily shakes her head at him to tell him to stop, muttering about how it’s “not appropriate”. The kid’s