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Thank you for the roses
TikTok, NPCs, and the pitfalls of agency gambling
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Michael Dean
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self-reliance
a 10% compression cover of Emerson's classic essay
robots, hucksters & slang-parrots
the forces that poison the million word KOON-SUL-ROMAN
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the Art Vandelay effect
dilemmas on using the A-word
an ode to CansaFis Foote
punk rock squirrel mystic content creator
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Michael Dean
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98% of my readers...
on the impossibility of knowing what people think
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Michael Dean
brief excursions in the dark arts of marketing
navigating the product, patron, process spectrum
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Michael Dean
The First Online Writer
Lessons from Justin Hall on rendering your unfiltered consciousness into hypertext
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Michael Dean
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The Mucha Method
How Selling Out Can Enable the Artist Within You
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Michael Dean
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1k twitter followers
some prose-poetry to celebrate a milestone
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Michael Dean
Newsletter Junkyard
We're in a newsletter arms-race. What happens when everyone has one and they all sound the same? Overwhelm, skimming, and email fatigue. What makes a…
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Michael Dean
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