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CJ Chilvers

I’m CJ. I make honest and useful books and essays at the intersection of creativity and sanity. I deliver by blog, email, RSS, and your choice of social media.

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Why the future belongs to independents

It was an honor to be back on Media & the Machine, which has grown to be an un-skippable podcast — usually with guests who are much smarter than me. Rob Kelly puts a lot of work into these episodes – more than any other podcast I’ve been on (even

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Do experts keep cleaning you?

Have you ever been mysteriously unsubscribed from an email newsletter?  It happens to me all the time. But I expect it. In fact, it’s how I can tell which “experts” are really beginners. I subscribe to a lot of newsletters and I use RSS to read long-form newsletters,

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CJ’s Newsletter: 200 Abnormally Useful Ideas

Over in the VIP Lounge, I published a small ebook of readers’ favorite quotes from 20+ years of publishing.  I started it last month because I thought it would be the easiest project ever — a nice extra for paid members, filtering my collection of ~2,000 quotes down to the