Author: Barrett Brooks

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Note: This is a post I originally wrote for Fizzle, where they teach aspiring entrepreneurs how to build small businesses that matter. Although you may not…

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Elizabeth Gilbert is one of the most well-known authors on the planet thanks to her bestselling memoir, Eat Pray Love. But long before she was…

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Making a ruckus. It’s a term I adopted into my own vocabulary after I heard it from Seth Godin. He used it to describe the…

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Building a body of work will change other people for the better. It will change the way they look at you as a person. It…

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Sabiki rigs are one of the most fascinating tools I’ve ever seen used in fishing. They consist of anywhere between six and ten small lures…

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J.R.R. Tolkien is best known for The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. He spent countless hours building the legend of Middle Earth and the history of…

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Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson are the notorious duo behind Basecamp, project planning and management software for small teams. Their approach to business has…

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Read for a while on Medium and you’ll see the debate: do the “personal development” writers deserve to be at the top of the charts……

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D.A. Wallach believes we should expect more from companies we support than the “compassionate capitalist” movement popularized by TOMs and other companies like them. He…

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It’s 10:57pm and I’ve just gotten home from a dinner with friends. On the way home I remembered that I haven’t published today. Time to…