The New and The Next - Issue #63

I’m 28, dropped out of journalism school, still have student loans, and was completely lost until around 2011. It wasn’t until 2014, I really started to taste the elixir of paying the bills by doing things I love for a living. 

If you’re neutral in situations of injustice you have chosen the side of the oppressor. 

What should you charge for a sales page? What should clients expect to pay for a sales page? In this post, see how marketers reacted to a $5000 invoice.

Do you have a New MRR growth problem? In this post I show that Buffer’s MRR growth is becoming stagnant and explain what Buffer should do about it.

At age 17, Aristotle enrolled in the Platonic Academy. He would stay there for 20 years. Founded by the father of Western philosophy, the Greek philosopher Plato, Aristotle was the most promising student around.

HubSpot conducted a survey of marketers and salespeople to see if technology is actually helping them be more productive or if they are just wasting their time.

As your business grows, your time becomes increasingly valuable. So why are you still doing stuff you could easily outsource?

Diets don’t work. Studies show that temporary fixes to old habits actually make people gain weight. 

You can make a good amount of money from blogging. Learn how to build a blogging business and sell blogs for profit.

Learn how to build a stronger brand for your business, blog, and career. Once you have a good brand, life gets much easier.

As a general rule, nobody at Basecamp really knows where anyone else is at any given moment. Are they working? Dunno. Are they taking a break? Dunno. Are they at lunch? Dunno. Are they picking up…

Business is a choose-your-own-adventure… which can leave you completely overwhelmed when rolling out your first paid product.

Messaging apps have over 5B monthly active users

Correlation does not reveal the one thing that matters most in innovation.

“As users migrate to these closed systems, they’re also shifting away from the type of broad-based algorithmic feeds packed with news and media content that were the hallmark of first-generation social media.”

Ben Chestnut and his team at MailChimp built an amazing business and became Inc. ‘s Company of the Year. It only took them 17 years.

Technology companies and other employers are crafting their own curricula and sharing them with colleges and universities.

Some consumers are finding they can get a better deal on prescription drugs by leaving their insurance cards at home.

LinkedIn power users are gaming the social network with elongated self-help posts that look like poems.

If you recently purchased an iPhone X, then you might be wondering how some of the features work. Here is a list of 18 iPhone X tips and tricks you should know about.

You may already be familiar with TorBrowser. But the anonymous internet has a lot more to offer.

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