David Moldawer

Book collaborator and ghostwriter specializing in business, personal development, and self-help.

📍 Montclair, NJ https://bookitect.com

waterlogged

Hemingway is claimed to have written the world’s saddest six-word novel [https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/For_sale:_baby_shoes,_never_worn]. He’s got nothing on mine: > I spilled water on my MacBook. Beat that for sub-seven-word tragedy. I’m also traveling, so this comes to

I love to see people being dangerous

Subject line courtesy of David Bowie: > If it’s wearing a pink hat and a red nose, and it plays guitar upside down, I will go and look at it. I love to see people being dangerous. From a 1999 interview with the late master in Rolling Stone. It

stop outlining, start inlining

I often wonder: should I write these as bulleted lists? Lots of people send bulleted lists—bullet-letters?—nowadays. I read a bunch of bullet-letters myself. Some newsletter people have even started additional newsletters on top of their already popular newsletters just to offer bulleted lists. It’s like there was

the magic of write-by-numbers

Financial expert Farnoosh Torabi, host of the podcast So Money [http://farnoosh.tv/podcast/episodes/] and author of When She Makes More: 10 Rules for Breadwinning Women, among others, runs Book to Brand [http://booktobrand.co/]. It’s an intensive, two-day event designed to help experts write a book that

learning to be a pro

> The most common response to procrastination is indeed to try to “get the right emotion”: to try to motivate yourself to feel like getting on with the job. The problem is that feeling like acting and actually acting are two different things. A person mired deep in procrastination might

the holy trinity of palm pilot, flip phone, and ipod

Judging from that thousand-yard stare, you’ve been reading the news again. Stop that! You’re not going to fix anything, unless you’re Robert Mueller, in which case, stop procrastinating and get back to those indictments. For the rest of you: While I can’t help you unsee any

taking the social media babies out of the social media bathwater

I don’t use Facebook right now. I may never return. Facebook, IMHO, is a Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad thing. That said, I distinguish between Facebook, the person—corporations are people [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_personhood]—and the actual, you know, people who do Mr. Facebook’

I don’t believe in subject lines anymore—it’s the maven game, OK?

On Thursday, I brought my month-long digital sabbatical to a close. I’ll admit it, I was pretty jazzed to do so. I kicked back, cracked open the MacBook, and opened a whole slew of tabs: Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, RSS reader, New York Times, Slate, Reddit, etc. By the way,

cobbler, stick to your last

If you like the Maven Game, you’ll love Doug Rushkoff—assuming you aren’t already familiar with his work. The world is a scary place and increasingly I prefer Doug’s lens for making sense of it. Read Doug’s most recent book, Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus,

the awkward power of actual community

It’s hard to sit and write. I clench at the very thought of it. Have you noticed this clenching phenomenon? I imagine it’s similar to standing in front of Tony Robbins’s 57° F plunge pool [https://www.tonyrobbins.com/health-vitality/the-power-of-cold-water/]. You can’t think about doing