The Year of Failure, the First Frightful Step, and a Story You Need to Read

Photo by Aziz Acharki via Unsplash
Photo by Aziz Acharki via Unsplash

Here are some of my favorite articles, videos, and blog posts from the web:

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The world’s last night came as a black surprise with its low groan, its fiery canisters, its torch-bearing ants marching. It came ribbonless, boxless, a series of presents carried in the bellies of airplanes. It came and unwrapped itself.

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“I’m tempted to declare 2017, The Year of Failure.”

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So here are the results of that launch in all the ways I can measure. I share them here because I know that it has always been so helpful to me to see other’s publishing and sales figures as a way of both anticipating costs AND have a benchmark by which to place my own publishing costs and profits. I hope these numbers will help you in the same way.

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So, be still.

The first frightful step

Before knowing.

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I am conditioned to believe the only reason we should do things is if we know exactly why, where we are headed, and for what purpose.

No wonder we have trouble making decisions.

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Most insightful thing I’ve seen in a while: Ta-Nehisi Coates explains why white people can’t say the N-word in rap songs

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Funniest thing I’ve seen in a while: Dogs that fail at being dogs