The same day I left the agency, I also published my first book. With no marketing budget, no publishing house, no PR or anything except my Quora audience and my Inc Magazine column, my first memoir, Confessions of a Teenage Gamer, reached #2 in two separate categories on Amazon in the first 24 hours. I had invested $1,000 of my own money into self-

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Writing a book is an enormous, unwieldy, yearslong process, but if I find myself with ten free minutes, I will sit down and attempt to write four good sentences. This type of productive vigilance is difficult to achieve. But much less so if you haven’t fallen behind. Much less so if you are organized with respect to your time, your space, and your

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