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How a writer chooses what to write about
On the threshold of history
Aug 15
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Russell Max Simon
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February 2025
All my AI workflows
Construction and content marketing, language learning and financial advice: how LLMs have transformed my life—and why I keep them away from this…
Feb 19
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Russell Max Simon
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December 2023
My grandmother's memoir still influences me
In 1993, my grandmother published a memoir—the book and her example still influence me today.
Dec 7, 2023
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Russell Max Simon
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November 2023
The lure of the dramatic life arc
Money, incentives, audience capture & writing online
Nov 30, 2023
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Russell Max Simon
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May 2023
Why I write memoir
Also: I have my own 'Phoenix rising from the ashes' narrative—I just don't like telling those kinds of stories
May 15, 2023
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Russell Max Simon
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July 2022
How to name your Substack
Introducing Post-Nomad: my process on how and why I rebranded after three years
Jul 18, 2022
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Russell Max Simon
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December 2021
Things left unwritten
I'm turning 40 and wondering what is still do vs. what remains to give up
Dec 27, 2021
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Russell Max Simon
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Haunted by Hemingway's "One True Sentence"
I've been working on a memoir and I want to give up.
Dec 4, 2021
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Russell Max Simon
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January 2021
I've agonized for years about "What I'm doing with my writing" — and now I have an answer
Also, it's 2021: Expect a lot more from me on topics you're not used to
Jan 5, 2021
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Russell Max Simon
November 2020
Being on Substack is turning in to an identity marker
Let's make sure it happens right.
Nov 16, 2020
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Russell Max Simon
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September 2020
The tension of writing for an audience
"Give the people what they want to hear" is never a mantra I’ve been particularly interested in following, perhaps to my detriment.
Sep 20, 2020
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Russell Max Simon
August 2020
The Russell Max Simon Production Function
And the importance of finding your own model for achievement (not the one society hands you).
Aug 8, 2020
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Russell Max Simon
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