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The time has come for me to move on from my email marketing platform, ActiveCampaign (after 10 years!), and the timing is good with Kit’s Black Friday deal.

They’re offering 60% off for 3 months of their Creator Monthly Plan, so for up to 1,000 subscribers, you can get started for just $15.60 per month.

All my lists together are currently above the limit for which this promotion applies, but since I’ll be slowly migrating over the next year, it works out for me – I hope it works out for you!

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September’s revenue was $5,649, up from August’s $3,493. Profits were $4,106, up from August’s $942.

A nice rebound in revenue, as I got an injection of cash for Chinese rights to Mind Management.

Unfortunately, this is an anomaly and doesn’t mean revenue has rebounded sustainably. 12-month income was at a new record-low again this month. I broke a nearly seven-year-old recor...

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August’s revenue was $3,493, down from July’s $4,176. Profits were $942, down from July’s $2,405.

12-month profits are at an all-time low in the nearly eight-year history of these reports. I’ve profited $29,917 in the past year. The previous low was in September 2020, of $32,213.

That was just a couple months before launching Mind Management, Not Time Management, so it shouldn’t be surprising my profits ...

Happy Tuesday! As I write this, Cal Newport’s Slow Productivity is only $2.99 on Kindle.

I haven’t read this one yet, but I’ve picked it up and am looking forward to checking it out. This part of the description has a nice punch, some of which will surely appeal to Mind Management fans:

From the aggressive rethinking of workload management, to introducing seasonal variation, to shifting your performance toward long-term quality, Slow Productivity provides a roadmap for escaping overload and ar...

I’ve once again updated the wheat-flanked words on Mind Management, Not Time Management, this time with a majorly-significant milestone: It’s now sold 50,000 copies (at least).

To celebrate, I’ve temporarily marked the Kindle version down to $5.00, which is probably the weirdest price-point on the entire Kindle store right now.

Sales broke through the 50k mark after I got a report from one of my foreign rights deals. I’ve made several foreign rights deals for MMT, and this is the first sales re...

I’ve been dabbling in some YouTube lately, and my latest addition is 12 life-changing books you haven’t read.

I’ve seen quite a few “life-changing” book recommendation videos on YouTube from other authors, and quite frankly I find them disappointing. Some of the books they recommend are good, but I overall get the sense they’re just recommending books from their genre that are published within their cabals of publishers and/or agents, doing favors for friends, or they’re doing some clever Amazo...

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July’s revenue was $4,176, up from June’s $3,504. Profits were $2,405, up from June’s $1,759.

Revenues and profits continue to be low, historically speaking.

Income over the past twelve months has been $70,457, which is the lowest since $70,177 June of 2024.

That doesn’t sound so bad, but profits are lower than they’ve been for a much longer time, at $34,003, the lowest since $32,213, in September 2020.

The av...

Good afternoon. As I write this, Scott H. Young’s Ultralearning is only $1.99.In this case, I must disclose that Scott is a friend, and we have long Zoom conversations periodically. We have a lot of overlap in the way we think, though I am much more mystified by how to trick oneself into doing what one intends, while Scott is far more interested in what is the best and most optimal way to do it.

He puts that passion into Ultralearning. I’m always impressed at how thorough Scott is. He uses a lot...

Happy Sunday! As I write this, Cal Newport’s Deep Work is only $2.99 on Amazon Kindle.

This prescient classic came along just as people were starting to get an idea that digital tools and media might be making us more distracted than productive. Now “deep work” is part of the popular lexicon.

I built upon Deep Work when developing the system I shared in Mind Management, Not Time Management. In fact, when I interviewed Newport for my podcast, he said:

The thing I learned after Deep Work came ou...

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June’s revenue was $3,504, down from May’s $3,771. Profits were $1,759, down from May’s $2,173.

My profit over the past twelve months is the lowest it’s been in five years. In November 2020, it was $36,243, and this month it’s $37,149.

November 2020 was just after Mind Management, Not Time Management had debuted. That’s a comforting reminder that when I’m getting close to a major bo...