These days, as Kara and I work to reduce our footprint and downsize our lives a bit, I've stopped (or at least slowed) a few old habits.
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Sometimes, no matter how much momentum you had when you started pursuing your dreams and passions and goals, you find yourself on still waters. You can think of it as being stuck, or you can think of it as a chance to rest, to catch your breath, and to admire the scenery. Eventually the winds will pick up again.
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As Kara and I get closer to this nomadic, RV life, we're finding that just about everything is a "growth experience." Shopping for a truck—as growth experiences go, this one was a sweet ride.
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After three months of doing everything we've been putting off for the last four years, Kara and I finally wrapped on home improvements, and got the house on the market.
Scariest. $%&^. Ever.
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When it comes to writing a book, there are essentially two types of authors.
The first is the plotter—the person who starts with a bullet list or a story treatment or story beats, and follows that plan from beginning to end. These authors can be meticulous and exacting, or they can use a more "loosely outlined" approach.
The second type, and the category I most often fall into, is the pantser. Yeah ... irony.
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If you wanted (or needed) to write and publish a book in just 30 days, would you be able to do it?
You would if you used this easy formula. And by "easy," I mean "you still have hard work to do, but it can be done."
Translation can sometimes be so finicky.
Try this 30-Day Author formula.
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Lately, I've been putting my chips on short fiction. I can't give you anything close to a research-driven perspective on why I think this is a good bet—it's a gut feeling more than anything. But it seems like some big names are more or less thinking in the same direction. Recently, Hugh Howey (author of Wool) has been writing posts about Kindle Unlimited and short fiction, and what he's saying hits home with me. But I've also noted some chatter on various forums, and seen some uptick for certain authors, and all of it makes me believe that short fiction is a contender now.
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Over the past 30 days I've released two new books, and a third is available for pre-order. So I thought I'd give a little bit of "behind the scenes" about the stories themselves, starting with Evergreen.
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Either you own your stuff or your stuff owns you. And as Kara and I get ready to start a whole new life, traveling together in an RV and exploring everything this country has to offer, we're freeing ourselves from all the stuff. And it hurts more than we thought it would.
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As Kara and I do more and more to get ready, it's becoming clear that we're actually doing this. And the more stuff we get rid of, the more downsizing we do, the bigger our lives can become.
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Kara and I are working on something.
I haven't exactly kept it hush-hush, but I haven't really made any official announcements either. But the short of it is, Kara and I want to sell our house, buy a camper trailer, and travel the country for a couple of years. We really just want to explore the place end to end, and maybe figure out where we'd like to stop long term.
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I attended the 2015 Sterling & Stone Colony Summit this weekend and came away with more than I had expected. I rediscovered my true passion, and I know exactly how to pursue without leaving anyone behind.
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We've talked a lot about what authority is. Now we'll take a look at how you can establish it for yourself.
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We put a lot of emphasis on the expert, but what about the novice? It's possible that being a newbie is at least as important as being a grand master. Today we take a look at the novice, in all his or her splendor, and look closer at the sliding scale of ignorance and expertise.
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So the argument is that expertise isn't subjective or relative—it's really about having a "deep knowledge" of a subject.
But what does "deep knowledge" mean? How do we quantify and measure that? How do we create something objective and measurable if we only have tools that are subjective and relative?
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An autonomous expert doesn't need you to validate them. They have their knowledge and their work, and that's all they require. They're an expert whether you know it or agree with it or not. An attributed expert, on the other hand, needs to be recognized by someone for their expertise. They have to be persuasive and they have to be able to communicate what they know.
These two aren't mutually exclusive. They overlap. And in this post, we take a look at the nature of autonomous and attributed expertise, and how each effects our decision making.
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Whenever we are learning something new, there's a veritable symphony of activity going on in our brains. Each new bit of information we encode into memory forms new neurons and pathways in our brains, and those tendrils reach outward in fractal patterns, trying their best to grow big and bright.
In this post, we're exploring how experts encode information faster than novices, simply because of the amount of information they already have.
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Is there such a thing as too much expertise? Can your credibility make you even more liable if your insight goes in the wrong direction? Today we're looking at the consequences of an expert's testimony when he turns out to be wrong.
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Expertise and authority can make you pretty powerful. Doctors and lawyers are a good example of that. But with that power comes a great responsibility (thanks Spider-man!). So what happens when we leverage the power but ditch the responsibility?
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