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" Bloggers are lazy and greedy. "
Ryan Holiday
Bloggers
Lazy
Greedy
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" Pretty much everyone's career starts the same way: with grunt work. Not just the cliched fetching of coffee, but other lowly tasks: taking notes in meetings, preparing paperwork, scheduling, intensive research - even flat-out doing our bosses' work for them. "
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" Virality is not an accident. It is engineered. And that's why growth hackers beat traditional marketers. "
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" The media, when it's functioning properly, protects the public against marketers and their ceaseless attempts to trick people into buying things. "
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" The news is notoriously inaccurate, and our memory of it is even worse. "
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" As I discovered in my media manipulations, the information that finds us online - what spreads - is the worst kind. It raised itself above the din not through its value, importance, or accuracy but through the opposite: through slickness, titillation, and polarity. "
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" Let's be clear: there was no golden age of journalism. The media has always been bad. And instead of improving, it spent a lot of time and energy making up its own myth. "
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" Every job carries occupational hazards. "
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" Online journalism has always had a sourcing problem. From using unverified 'anonymous tips' to repeating whatever rumor or speculation people are chattering about, the general ethic is, 'We'll publish just about anything.' "
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" We all have goals: We want to matter. We want to be important. We want to have freedom and power to pursue our creative work. We want respect from our peers and recognition for our accomplishments. Not out of vanity or selfishness, but of an earnest desire to fulfill our personal potential. "
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" The best kind of marketing messages are the ones that don't seem like marketing messages. Because it means that the viewers' defenses are down. "
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" It angers me to see armed defenders at the bottom of Lost Cause statues, adding a renewed threat of violence to icons that are themselves part of an ideology of violence and intimidation. "
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" When work impedes on sleep, poor planning is to blame - not superior will power. "
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" It's your job to find a release and an outlet for the stress and the feelings. Never forget: the crazy stays at home. "
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" The reality is that the economic situation for millennials is not a good one. "
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" Virality, at its core, is asking someone to spend their social capital recommending or linking or posting about you for free. "
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Core
" Our facts aren't fact; they are opinions dressed up like facts. Our opinions aren't opinions; they are emotions that feel like opinions. Our information isn't information; it's just hastily assembled symbols. "
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" What people often forget is that for the parties involved, the media game is a vicious contest. "
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" The essential idea of Stoicism in my interpretation is, you don't control the world around you, you control how you respond. At 19, that's very empowering. "
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" In Los Angeles and other cities, being around immigrants is inspiring. They are touching the American Dream and reminding you how much you take it for granted. "
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" In June 2007, I finished up school for the year. I didn't know it at the time, but I was done with college forever. By the end of the summer, I had dropped out and would not return. "
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" We need to separate marketing messages from content. We need to enforce a clear line between 'editorial' and 'advertising.' "
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" If it comes as a constant surprise each and every time something unexpected occurs, you're not only going to be miserable whenever you attempt something big, you're going to have a much harder time accepting it and moving on to attempts two, three, and four. "
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" When I lived in Louisiana, 'Django Unchained' was shot at my neighbor's house. They shot a Sly Stallone movie in my gym. "
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" We only have so much energy for our work, for our relationships, for ourselves. A smart person understands this and guards it carefully. Meanwhile, idiots focus on marginal productivity hacks and gains while they leak out energy each passing day. "
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" One of the ironies of being with someone you really love for a long time is becoming completely incapable of handling stressful or difficult things by yourself. "
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" My advice to young people would be this: Don't move to New York. It is not where you will find yourself. "
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