Maureen Metzger

Mar 16

Hey, Employer! Are your employees burnt out? It’s you, not them.

Telling people who are burnt out to go do yoga or meditate is basically gaslighting. Burnout is as much an organizational and societal problem as it is an individual problem. In her recent book “The Burnout Epidemic”, Jennifer Moss details 6 factors that researchers agree contribute most to burnout: Excessive…

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Mar 16

Ask 3 simple questions to make sure you’re comfortable with the ethics of your marketing methods

Are you uncomfortable with marketing or promoting your work? Are you worried that you’re going to come across as pushy, manipulative, or scammy? You’re not alone — it bothers a lot of people. But the marketing advice on the internet for content creators rarely addresses this issue well. …

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Mar 14

“Write to become an expert” and other advice to creators — should you follow it?

“Write to become an expert.” “Build in public.” “Have a morning routine.” “Don’t build your product until you build your audience.” The internet is full of pundits offering advice on what you and I should be doing to find success as a fledgling creator. …

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Mar 13

Here’s what you’re really learning in Ship30for30 — it’s not how to write

Over the last few weeks I’ve started to see evidence of a backlash on Twitter, with tweets like these popping up on my timeline: “I mute anything with a 🧵 symbol in it” “I skip over those posts with an essay image attached” Satire tweets about “how I made my…

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Mar 12

Is your productivity problem actually a physics problem? Good news: that one’s easier to solve.

For years, I thought I had a productivity problem. I never seemed to be able to get everything done I needed to do. For every item I checked off my to-do list, I added 4 more. I implemented GTD. Tried multiple task management systems. …

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