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Daniel Barrett

Musician, Business Owner, Dad, among some other things. I am best known for my work in HAVE A NICE LIFE, Giles Corey, and Black Wing. I also started and run a 7-figure marketing agency.

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The Life-Changing MAGIC of Process Behavior Charts (plus Free Google Sheets Template)

Better Questions is supported by readers like you. If you get value from my writing, consider becoming a supporting member. Exclusive content, weekly deep-dives, free beta-access to future courses and more. It's 1$. Thanks. Note: I originally shared this in Ed Leake's wonderful agency community, The

The Life-Changing MAGIC of Process Behavior Charts (plus Free Google Sheets Template)
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The Only Thing

Better Questions is supported by readers like you. If you get value from my writing, consider becoming a supporting member. Exclusive content, weekly deep-dives, free beta-access to future courses and more. It's 1$. Thanks. ---- Each year, I recreate my "Personal Vision Document." In this, I

The Only Thing
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Be Careful What You Expect

There is a lesson that I learn over and over and over again, a lesson so ubiquitous in my life that it's starting to feel personal. Here it is: First, you make your beliefs, then your beliefs make you. As Iain McGilchrist puts it: "Our minds are

Be Careful What You Expect
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Some of The Best Things I've Read About A.I.

People have a lot of feelings about A.I. As with most emotionally-charged subjects, it can be hard to have an actual conversation with someone about A.I. For one, "A.I." is, itself, often very loosely-defined, and participants in these conversations often have very different (and specific)

Some of The Best Things I've Read About A.I.
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What We Talk About When We Talk About Complexity

"The more complex the problem, the simpler the solution must be." - Dr. Eli Goldratt Imagine two systems. System A: System B: Which is more complex? Our first answer might be that "A" is more complex. After all, it has more pieces. Not only that, all

What We Talk About When We Talk About Complexity
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Tutorial: Using Zapier and OpenAI to Process Your Snail Mail

Another experiment with OpenAI, because why not? There's lots of hype about using AI to write blog posts and long-form content, but I actually think most of that is overblown. Who wants to read the world's most vanilla content? Who wants to read something where the

Tutorial: Using Zapier and OpenAI to Process Your Snail Mail
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No Straight Lines

Better Questions is supported by readers like you. If you get value from my writing, consider becoming a supporting member. Exclusive content, weekly deep-dives, free beta access to future courses, and more. It's 1$ a month. Thanks. ---- I was going to start this essay by saying that

No Straight Lines
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Tutorial: Automating PPC Client Reports Using Zapier and OpenAI

Last week we talked about Freud. This week? We're talking Droid. I've been doing quite a bit of work lately on automating client reports. See, most of our clients are NOT technical. We send them a dashboard of all their campaign stats, but it looks like

Tutorial: Automating PPC Client Reports Using Zapier and OpenAI
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Weekly Roundup, February 3rd 2023

Weekly Roundup, February 3rd 2023
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The Secret at the Heart of Psychoanalysis

Better Questions is supported by readers like you. If you get value from my writing, consider becoming a supporting member. Exclusive content, weekly deep-dives, free beta-access to future courses and more. It's 1$. Thanks. I've been reading a lot about psychoanalysis. I couldn't tell

The Secret at the Heart of Psychoanalysis