Hey Everyone,
Hope you're having a great week. Here are a few things I've been reading, writing and pondering lately. Enjoy!
1. When Breath Becomes Air
I just finished this book and it is profound. It’s the autobiography of a neurosurgeon who discovers that he has a rare form of cancer. The book details the final years of his life (not a spoiler) and I highly recommend it. I listened to the audiobook on Libby.
2. The Arrested Development Joke Map
This is just so great. If you haven’t watched this show yet, get on it!
3. The Top Animalz Post of 2018
For the content marketers among you, here are the top 10 Animalz posts of 2018 in order of popularity.
- How to Create or Refine a Content Marketing Strategy
- Technical SEO for Content Marketers
- 50 Things We’ve Learned About Content Marketing
- How QuickBooks Nearly Doubled Traffic by Deleting Half Its Content
- Content Marketing Personas: How to Reach Your Target Audience
- Your Blog Is Not a Publication
- Great Writing Isn’t Enough. Here Are Two SEO Frameworks for Growing a SaaS Blog.
- 5 Content Marketing Power Laws
- The Science Behind 100,000-View Blog Posts
- Understand Your Growth Constraints, Then Deploy Content Marketing Strategically
4. Tweet of the Week
5. Random Links
- How much does it cost to climb Mt. Everest?
- The best small towns in each state
- Here’s a great read from our people ops manager: Remote Employee Onboarding Checklist: Building Structure and Flexibility for an Async Team
- Hacker Noon is crowdfunding a $1 million round of financing. It’s a very cool chance to have a slice of equity in this growing company.
Have a great weekend!
Jimmy
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