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@RyanHoliday·2 min read·May 7, 2026

“The First Draft of Anything Is Shit”

finable, unquantifiable thing that made her first two albums, 19 and 21, so transcendently great simply wasn’t there. It took Adele two years longer to get the album to a place where Rubin believed

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@RyanHoliday·2 min read·Apr 30, 2026

How To Digest Books Above Your “Level” And Increase Your Intelligence

The best advice I’ve ever got about reading came from a secretive movie producer and talent manager who’d sold more than 100 million albums and done more than $1B in box office returns. He said to me

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@RyanHoliday·2 min read·Apr 27, 2026

Work, Family, Scene: You Can Only Pick Two

When I first moved to Austin in 2013, I went out to lunch—fittingly—with a writer named Austin Kleon. I was a longtime fan of his book Steal Like an Artist (his book Keep Going is a new favorite).

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@RyanHoliday·2 min read·Apr 25, 2026

These Are 23 Great Rules To Be A Productive Creative

[1] Read. Read. Read. A book is made of books. “The greatest part of a writer’s time is spent in reading; a man will turn over half a library to make one book,” Samuel Johnson said. As I was putting

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@RyanHoliday·2 min read·Apr 22, 2026

20 Years Ago, I Spent $8 on This. My Life Was Never The Same.

Sitting on my desk as I write this is a book I paid $8.25 for nearly twenty years ago. The cover is taped back on. Nearly every page is marked or folded. They have yellowed with age, in some cases

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@RyanHoliday·2 min read·Apr 14, 2026

This Is Something I’ve Turned To Over and Over Again When The World Seems Dark

I guess I could try to put into words how much I love this book. I could try to explain how this 84-year-old book about an obscure 16th-century philosopher is uniquely relevant to our times. Or I

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@RyanHoliday·2 min read·Apr 10, 2026

9 Amazing Books They Tried To Ban (That Everyone Should Read)

I was surprised to find out that many people seem to not understand what a banned book is. ‘Banned Book Week’ wrapped up yesterday, and I was continually surprised by some of the comments people

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@RyanHoliday·2 min read·Apr 5, 2026

This Habit Is Making You Miserable

Stop watching cable news, it’s bad for you. Stop filtering the world through social media, it’s a cesspool. Turn off those breaking news alerts on your phone—none of them are as important as you

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@SarniaPolice·2 min read·Apr 3, 2026

Three teens arrested in distraction theft

Media release: https://www.sarniapolice.ca/news/1056/three-teens-arrested-in-distraction-theft/ On April 1, 2026, at approximately 12:41 a.m., police were called to a theft that had just occurred at an Indian Road South convenience store. Three young

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@jawestenberg·2 min read·Mar 31, 2026

The World's First Bullshit

I opened Twitter this morning and three different startups were announcing "the world's first" something. An AI CMO, an autonomous AI marketer, and a design agent "with taste," which is a phrase that

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@RyanHoliday·2 min read·Mar 28, 2026

You Can’t Succeed In Life Without This Skill

Preparation is important. Planning is important. Reflection is important. I mean, I wrote a whole book called, Stillness is the Key, because it’s true. And I was just saying earlier this month that I

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@saidinfra·2 min read·Mar 27, 2026

We Built an AI Agent That Makes All Our Content. Here's Exactly How.

We Built an AI Agent That Makes All Our Content. Here's Exactly How. $0 design budget. 30 days. 40+ production assets. One agent. 30 days ago, we launched $SAID with one integration, a handful of

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@ancurated·2 min read·Mar 25, 2026

TEZOS TUESDAY | ART ON OBJKT March 24th, 2026

Hey there everyone! Happy Tezos Tuesday :) We have curated a selection of artworks on Objkt for collectors, curators, gallerists, and peers to check out. Here are today's curated selection

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@RyanHoliday·2 min read·Mar 20, 2026

Don’t Go To Business School. Read These 18 Books Instead

Warren Buffett considers the foundation of his multi-billion dollar empire to be a book. At 19 years old, he bought a copy of The Intelligent Investor by Benjamin Graham. We don’t know exactly what he

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@MithrieTV·2 min read·Mar 20, 2026

Sonic 4 Movie Release Date Revealed As March 2027 Confirmed

The release window of the Sonic 4 movie has been teased. I also discuss the potential sequel to Clair Obscur Expedition 33, and Lies of P has surpassed another sales milestone. Lies Of P Sales

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@RyanHoliday·2 min read·Mar 16, 2026

The Secret To Avoiding Burnout

Two years into writing my latest book, Discipline is Destiny, I hit a wall. There is no word other than “despair” for what I was feeling. Doubt? One always has that. This was deeper. No, this was a

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@lamps_apple·11 min read·Mar 15, 2026

The Sabotage of a Republic

The mainstream media in this country has become the most dishonest, most corrupt, most anti-American institution we have ever seen... and that is saying something, because we have seen a lot. We have

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@RyanHoliday·8 min read·Mar 9, 2026

11 Books You Can Finish In One Sitting

Ok, so I have a secret that I use when I am in a reading rut: I read something really short. I love the feeling of sitting down and finishing a book…in that sitting. I get the whole rush of cracking

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@RyanHoliday·2 min read·Mar 4, 2026

Things Heavy Metal Taught Me About Life

I can no longer remember the first heavy metal song I ever listened to, but I assume it was something by Metallica. I can tell you the first album I fell in love with: Brave New World by Iron Maiden.

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@Decentralisedco·2 min read·Jul 21, 2025

Building on Hypercore

A brief exploring the design space for applications Hypercore. We had previously published our thesis on Hyperliquid and followed it up with an exploration of how options products could evolve on

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