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The BASB Customer Persona

I recently compiled all my notes, findings, and ideas about the “ideal customer” for Building a Second Brain, and put them into a single doc

🔒 May 10, 2019 by Tiago Forte

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Interview with Weihaur Lau of Created Living, on Health and Wellbeing for Conscious Leaders

I recently interviewed Weihaur Lau of Created Living, a health and wellness-based coaching program for leaders.  Weihaur’s coaching business

🔒 Dec 7, 2018 by Tiago Forte

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10 Things I Learned as a VA with Tiago

By Kathryn Tongg 1. Establish the preferred method of communication right away. Everyone has a way they prefer to communicate. Whether this

🔒 Dec 4, 2018 by Tiago Forte

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Just-In-Time PM #16: Effective ROA

In Part 15, I advocated for multithreading, or weaving together multiple projects to take advantage of unexpected opportunities and synergie

🔒 Jun 3, 2018 by Tiago Forte

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Just-In-Time PM #18: Motivational Waves

In Part 17, I argued that unique states of mind are the most powerful resource available to knowledge workers. But these states are difficul

🔒 Jun 8, 2018 by Tiago Forte

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Tiago’s 2019 Mid-Year Review

The following are the results of my Mid-Year Review, which I do every year around the beginning of July. It is a simple process of reflectio

🔒 Jul 21, 2019 by Tiago Forte

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The 5 Challenges of Becoming a Digital Nomad

In Part 1 of the Going Nomad series, I explained why my partner Lauren and I are moving to Mexico at the end of the year. In Part 2, I’ll te

🔒 Aug 15, 2018 by Tiago Forte

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The Four Pathways of Modern Book Publishing

In The Future of Ebooks, I laid out a vision for what books could become in a world free of technological constraints. But the modern realit

🔒 Mar 9, 2019 by Tiago Forte

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My 10-Step Book Publishing Strategy

In The Four Pathways of Modern Book Publishing, I described the main routes for a writer to get published today, and in The Case for Traditi

🔒 Mar 11, 2019 by Tiago Forte

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Just-In-Time PM #7: Interaction Over Consumption

In Part 6, I recommended treating any deliverable (whether it’s a simple email all the way to a full-fledged product) as a series of evoluti

🔒 May 22, 2018 by Tiago Forte

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The Inner Game of Work: Focus, Desire, and Working Free

I’ve become obsessed with coaching. It started in February, when I started the 4-month Self-Expression & Leadership Program at Landmark.

🔒 Aug 27, 2017 by Tiago Forte

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Launching Your Book

Everything you’ve done up to this point has been preparation for this singular moment: the launch of your book. An incredible amount of time

🔒 Oct 17, 2020 by Tiago Forte

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Own Your Writing Platform

Publishing a book is like running for political office. There are a lot of people out there who you want to take a certain action, at a cert

🔒 Oct 17, 2020 by Tiago Forte

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Strategically Constrained: How to Turn Limitations Into Opportunities

I first came across the idea that great strengths can emerge from great constraints in Ryan Holiday’s book The Obstacle is the Way. He takes

🔒 Aug 17, 2017 by Tiago Forte

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The Maker’s Guide to Content Curation, Part 2: The 7 Pillars

In Part 1, I argued that curating the content of others was an excellent way to start creating content of one’s own, whether your goal is ad

🔒 Oct 18, 2018 by Tiago Forte

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The Maker’s Guide to Content Curation, Part 1: Open-Sourcing Your Learning Process

One of the best ways to advance your career, start an extra income stream, or become an entrepreneur is by creating content.  By “content” I

🔒 Oct 17, 2018 by Tiago Forte

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The Case for Traditional Publishing for Full-Stack Freelancers

In The Four Pathways of Modern Book Publishing, I described what I believe to be the four main routes to publication for writers in the digi

🔒 Mar 11, 2019 by Tiago Forte

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Interview with Billy Bross of Email Boss

This is an interview with my online course marketing coach and creator of the Email Boss program Billy Bross. It is an in-depth discussion i

🔒 Oct 14, 2019 by Tiago Forte

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The Structure of Information Revolutions

In 1962, philosopher Thomas Kuhn published his landmark work The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, forever changing our view of the histo

🔒 Dec 10, 2018 by Tiago Forte

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Progressive Summarization VI: Core Principles of Knowledge Capture

It might seem absurd that something as simple as a method of highlighting could be so important to a person’s productivity and learning. Eve

🔒 Jul 8, 2018 by Tiago Forte

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Negotiating Your Contract

Once you’ve accepted an offer for the publishing rights to your book, it’s time to draw up and sign a binding contract. Many of these contra

🔒 Oct 17, 2020 by Tiago Forte

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Trekonomics: The Economics of Post-Scarcity

I recently finished listening to the audiobook of Trekonomics: The Economics of Star Trek (Amazon Affiliate Link), by Manu Saadia. It was pr

🔒 Apr 12, 2018 by Tiago Forte

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The Modern Swipe File

15 Unexpected Uses for Digital Notes

🔒 Jan 22, 2021 by Tiago Forte

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How I Made a Documentary Film with Digital Notes

Over the last year I filmed a short documentary on the life and artistic career of my father Wayne Forte. He has been one of the strongest

🔒 Nov 9, 2020 by Tiago Forte

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Finding an Agent and Publisher

You should think of the people you’re working with at each stage of the publishing process as your publishing team. Each one contributes som

🔒 Oct 17, 2020 by Tiago Forte