An Untethered Life Does Your Content Pass The Only Test That Matters? Hi Reader, Much of the writing I come across online is thinly veiled commercial pablum designed solely to pitch something, get clicks, increase followers, or accomplish some other obvious goal that has nothing to do with the reader's enjoyment of the piece. In my view, this kind of content fails the only test that online writing should be subject to. And that test can be summed up in a single question: If you stripped out...

An Untethered Life Maximizing the ROI on Your Writing Hi Reader, It's easy to write a lot and wind up without a lot to show for it. Plenty of people toil in obscurity only to see their writing fall through the online cracks, unread and unnoticed. So, how can you avoid this fate? How can you ensure that your writing gets read by someone, somewhere? How can you use it to make money, get attention, or gain fulfillment in your personal life? In this edition of An Untethered Life, I'll provide you...

An Untethered Life The Commodification of Writing Hi Reader, There's a war being fought in the online writing space. On one side are the writers - and their allies - doing their best to demonstrate their value as unique, distinguishable providers of a premium product. On the other side are the forces doing everything they can to reduce writing to a commodity. The consequences of the war will be dramatic. If the writers win, we all have an economic future doing what we love to do. If we lose,...