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The posts my readers love best, my latest work, and my favorite gems that are still waiting to be discovered

Jason McBride

Oct 5, 2020·2 min read

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Latest:

Pirate Obituaries

They didn’t all die in a blaze of swashbuckling glory

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Why You Should Never Go Running

A fatty shines a harsh light on the runner industrial complex

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How Anxiety Can Be Your Secret Creative Superpower

It’s not always about worst-case scenarios

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Useless Personal Information in Graphs & Charts

Big data comes for a confessional memoir writer

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Monstrous Motivational Quotes

Improving vapid business quotes with the help of monsters

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My Most Read Stories:

A Cop Stopped Choking Me When He Realized I Was White

How a traumatic encounter with a racist police officer 26 years ago still affects my life

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Why Your Small Business Should Skip Social Media & Invest in These Smarter Marketing Tactics…

Social media is a time and money sinkhole

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The Future of Content Marketing is Already Here

If you’re still cranking out 500-word blog posts, you’re already behind

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The Lazy Writer’s Guide to Earning a Living Online

It’s possible to earn a full-time income only writing a few hours a day

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Hustle & Grind Until You Die

A crazy theory of achieving success by setting limits and taking time to enjoy your life

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The Baby is Where?

How my parents scarred me for life trying to get me excited about my new sibling

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How to Write Killer Haiku

Stop writing for yourself and start writing for your reader

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How to Use Poetry to Develop Mindfulness

How the sustained focus of writing poetry helps you quiet your mind and live in the present

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My Favorites:

Self-Help Doesn’t Work Because It Focuses on the Wrong Questions

Don’t ask how to get more done or how to be happier. Ask this instead

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Quarantine Dreams

What happens when dreams are your only escape?

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Trouble in the Deep Woods

Not the Litte Red Riding Hood you think you know

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The First Time I Met God Was at the Laundromat

How do you know the difference between a revelation and a hallucination?

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Find a Lonely Place

What to do when the world threatens to overwhelm you

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How One Meta Easter Egg in Hamilton Demonstrates Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Writing Genius

Once you read this, you will never see the show the same way again

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It’s Healthy to be Sad — Ignore the Happiness Zealots

The dark side of the relentless pursuit of happiness at all costs

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I hope something you read made your day at least 1% better. That’s my goal with everything that I write.

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Jason McBride

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