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How To Make Music a Useful Part of Your Life Again

Nik 
If you’re listening to music right now, please, press pause.

The following is a musical without sound in three acts.

Act I:   The Fight That Turned Into a War
Act II:  Compulsive Listening on the Rise
Act III: Give Up Power, Take Back Control

On 17th of September 2016, I canceled my Spotify Premium subscription.

I wasn’t unhappy or couldn’t afford it any longer. I had been a raving customer for over three years. I wasn’t even sure why I did it at the time, but now I know:

I needed to stop using Spotify to save myself.

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How To Stop Being Addicted to Facebook

Nik

In 2006, a friend who went to the U.S. a lot told me I had to sign up to this new thing called Facebook. I was 15 years old. Since no one I knew was on there, I quickly forgot about it.

Standing in the Apple store on 5th Ave four years later, as my travel group talked me into getting on board, I realized that “a Facebook account for this email already exists.” It was the first day of my demise.

I’m not alone. Over two billion people share the same struggle: We want to use Facebook less, but we can’t stop. Maybe you do too. About two years ago, I finally put this technology in its rightful place.

Today, I want to show you why Facebook is designed to make you addicted, what it’s doing to your brain and how to finally get over it.

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Why Paying for Quality Writing Is So Important

Nik

Paid writing subscriptions like Medium’s Membership have received some praise and much criticism. You may not be sure if paying for Medium, some magazine, or your favorite Substack writer is worth your $5 each month . I can assure you it is. Two reasons:

  1. These are the best financial deals in the history of media.
  2. Most of us are missing their most important aspect.

To understand both, we first need to look at said history and how it repeats itself.

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How To Improve Your Writing With 6 Questions

Nik

A writer’s job is to bring order to chaos. It’s our duty to descend into the cluttered world of ideas and then structure whatever insight we manage to wring from its hands.

Therefore, writing is by definition a messy process. The goal of this post is not so much to get you to adopt my version of it — although I will give you the tools if you wish to do so — but to get you to examine your own.

When I recently did, I found I constantly ask myself six questions about writing. Before, after and during. All the time. They’re definitely not a checklist. More of a blurry circle my mind spins in.

I want to show you those questions. Show you you’re not alone. Seeing my lose structure should help accept your own. Then, you can set out to find the little that’s there. So you can build on it. That’s the plan.

Let’s go.

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How To Get Better At Networking

Nik

Here’s how most people approach networking:

“Uh-oh, our Kickstarter is about to launch and we have zero people on our email list. Let me go to some networking events, hopefully find 2–3 influencers I can do something for, and then they’ll share.”

These people do find influencers. The problem is they see right through this sham. And then these people lose.

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