What? What do you mean “spot content written by AI”? Isn’t it obvious? I’ve dabbled in AI-enhanced creativity before (and written about it, too). And you’re right — imaginary Internet heckler — it’s still fairly easy to spot what’s been written by AI. …

Death on a family road trip. — In my family, there are exactly two kinds of death. The one you talk about, and the one you don’t. If someone my age talked about death the way my grandma does, I’d consider them clinically depressed. When she mentions moving to the cemetery, I take another sip of her…

Use data to choose which articles to optimize — and get results with just 15 minutes of work. — Too often we content marketers look at our site analytics the same way we admire the Mississippi or rising storm clouds. We see, we feel, we appreciate the power… But we don’t do anything. Using only Google’s free Search Console and Data Studio, you can build a scatter plot that…

Edit March 12, 2018: The iTunes xml that this method uses to fetch the data seems to work again. The method should we valid as is but be aware that if the iTunes feed breaks or they change something, you won’t get data anymore. Edit, February 24, 2018: The iTunes…

Finishing a book is infinitely more difficult than starting it, but with these 4 data-backed ways you’ll be much closer to achieving your dream — I’ll spoil this article for you: to finish your book, you need to get started and you need to keep going. The following tips are ways to do just that, nothing more and nothing less. These productivity tips are based on my 3-year quantifying creativity project in which I tracked…

How loud should your podcast be? There are standards and then there’s the reality. I analyzed over 600 top US podcast episodes to find out the true loudness you should aim for. The Podcast Loudness Standards from Apple are: overall loudness remains around -16 dB LKFS, with a +/- 1…

Can tracking creativity help you be more productive? Will listening to binaural beats unlock some secret source of creativity? If all you have is 30 minutes per day and a lifetime supply of self-doubt, is it possible to power through and write a book? In 2017, I decided to write…