ryanholiday

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by ryanholiday 11y ago
That's exactly the point no?
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by ryanholiday 11y ago
It depends. They're calculated hourly. Right place right time...could be just a couple dozen. Books sell less copies than people think.
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by ryanholiday 11y ago
I had a tour guide in German who told me he was one of the few people he knew who had read any of it because he'd spent time in the US as a exchange student.
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by ryanholiday 11y ago
"Rivers are easiest to cross at their source." Syrus Do it now before it gets harder.
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by ryanholiday 12y ago
I was fortunate enough to publish Seth's final column this morning. http://betabeat.com/2014/04/seth-roberts-final-column-butter...
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by ryanholiday 13y ago
Yes they are very readable and his thoughts often feel like they were written last week. It's surprisingly timeless. Schopenhauer was not a big proponent of empty, pointless philosophizing. His stuff is all practical and to the point.
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by ryanholiday 13y ago
I would disagree. The general principles for growth hacking always apply--far better than traditional marketing techniques do anyway. Growth hacking is, at its core, the art of building marketing into the product itself and then pulling in
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by ryanholiday 13y ago
Hi everyone, I wish I was clever enough to have orchestrated all this, but in fact am not. Very nice of Chris to include me in his list. Though I will say that this list is missing a few good books: 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing 48 Laws of
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by ryanholiday 13y ago
Who is insanely worked up? It's not that it's luck behind viral videas, it's that they tend to spread or become popular in their own unique ways and attempts to deduce general rules from examples you had nothing to do with is usually foolha
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by ryanholiday 13y ago
This is known as "thumbnail cheating"
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by ryanholiday 13y ago
Nothing is worse than advice about making things "go viral" from people who have never actually done it.
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by ryanholiday 13y ago
Real name as user name on pretty much every account I have period. Never saw the point of doing otherwise.
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by ryanholiday 13y ago
HN is a testament to what happens when you make a thing for a very specific group of people and only them. It sort of reminds me those companies you hear about every once in a while that say "No" to being sold in Wal-Mart. It seems crazy bu
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by ryanholiday 13y ago
Only when it doesn't make sense :)
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by ryanholiday 13y ago
Please, I have written pretty extensively about the problems with the ad impressions model--I think it's the root of the YT issue and most the low quality blogging we see. I don't get paid by the pageview and if I did, it would be an incons
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by ryanholiday 13y ago
He wrote the intro to the republished edition of The Brass Check believe it or not. (But to address your other point, it may be. Chomsky's media criticism focusing heavily on this)
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by ryanholiday 13y ago
It goes the other way around too. Most reporters and bloggers get their basic facts from Wikipedia. So it's a feedback loop. Wikipedia frames reporting which can then be used to "support" or cite that very same framing. Almost every public
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by ryanholiday 13y ago
The incentive problem goes lower and more granular than that. How are most bloggers paid (or at least judged on performance)? Pageviews. What metric has about the lowest correlation to quality, accuracy or significance? Pageviews.
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by ryanholiday 13y ago
Actually, in the book I go much earlier. Upton Sinclair wrote a book of media criticism in 1912 that was the genesis for my theories. Yellow journalism predates Bernays by more than a few decades.
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by ryanholiday 13y ago
Ding ding! Of course, that doesn't mean this isn't unfortunate, bad for us and bad for the web in the long term.
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by ryanholiday 13y ago
Right, this thread should just be deleted until someone writes a story about it. The page is unreadable--like most of Wikipedia's talk pages...and then they wonder why normal people don't participate.
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by ryanholiday 13y ago
Aren't a good portion of Wikipedia edits plagiarism regardless?
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by ryanholiday 13y ago
I do think services like RSS are strategically opposed to the vision of a lot of technology companies. The more ad-driven (or growth/hype driven they are), the more they embrace the noisy, chaotic one off model. Whereas other companies, des
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by ryanholiday 13y ago
There is, nonetheless, a HUGE difference between you pulling content (subscribing) and other people recommending or aggregating content for you. One is subject to the One Off Problem, the other is not. One creates incentives to sensationali
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by ryanholiday 13y ago
That's why I liked Siegler's analogy to bees.
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by ryanholiday 13y ago
We saw this with Delicious though. Some rich guys bought it...and made it unusable.
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by ryanholiday 13y ago
I think Instapaper is definitely an advancement and I'm a big fan. How many users does it really have though?
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by ryanholiday 13y ago
I'm not a big MG Siegler fan but I think he's right http://techcrunch.com/2013/03/24/bees/ My sense is that MOST of the users won't come back. And that's a shame, because they were very important. Delicious is still around--I haven't logg
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by ryanholiday 13y ago
Good point. Not exactly my area of expertise but I should have used that as an example.
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by ryanholiday 14y ago
Agreed. Stoicism is not "philosophy" as we've been taught to think of it (that is, dense, boring, confusing). Even the old translations of Marcus Aurelius, Seneca and Epictetus are straight forward enough for anyone.

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