Madison Taskett

Topic

makers

A collection of 44 issues

30 tweets in 30 days

I don't know how to tweet about my content. Just posting a link to it won't get enough engagement. From seeing successful folks tweet, it's like I have to repurpose the entire blog post in tweet form. Which sounds fucking hard. But I remember back in 2020 I promised myself

Too many Business books ruined my love for reading

"Atomic Habits, Essentialism, Zero to One... You sure you don't wanna keep these?" my boyfriend asks as I show him my goodwill donation pile. "And, can I take a few?" "Go for it," I say as I chuck "Thinking Fast and Slow" down the giveaway trash bag. These 'business self-help'

chasing the money vs becoming a legend

"If you want to go down as a legend, don't worry about the money. If you make something original and awesome, the money will find you." - Harry Dry [https://marketingexamples.com/inspiration] Mark Manson [https://markmanson.net/] touched upon the same idea while comparing Emeril Lagasse [https://www.emerils.

Do it NOW before it's over.

Jodi Ettenberg's [https://www.legalnomads.com/] travel blog inspired me to fall in love with food. Because of her, I traveled to Saigon for a month to eat hot soup in tiny alleys every morning, and to spend two months in Oaxaca savoring tlayudas and mole from the neighborhood abuela.

How to know you're progressing? Compare today to 2 yrs ago.

I've been trying to tell the same story for the last couple of years. In one of my most bizarre travel moments, January of 2019, the president of Mexico approached my then-boyfriend and I on the streets of La Condesa, and he and his wife chanted 'kiss kiss kiss!" at

When will you be a success?

It's after midnight. I spent all night writing a post that ended up being too personal to publish (and it wasn't that great anyhow). But it's my honor to write each night even if it's bad, even if I have to throw it away and start all over again. I

I have to rethink my business.

I'm working a daily program that is fundamentally changing my soul. I'm starting to get more motivated by helping others over myself. My selfishness is melting away like snow in the spring, and all these lovely blossoms of generosity and kindness and care are popping up in its place. I

Why I'm Delaying my Newsletter Launch

"So how's your business launch going?" Zach [https://twitter.com/Cashflow_Cowboy] asked between mouthfuls of mapo tofu. "Well" I paused to savor a soup dumpling, "I'm putting it on hold while I work on my house." "Of course! When you told me you were going to do both at

We're All Clones of Each Other

After my Lazy Bitch article [https://www.madisontaskett.com/lazy-bastard-productivity/] hit the front page of HN in May, 600 people followed me on Twitter. I was excited to go through them and see who stood out... ... ... ... yikes. Almost no one did. They'd basically picked their 'brand' from some generic template

Brainstorming my upcoming newsletter

Okay, so later this month (yikes haha) I'm going to launch a newsletter about ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛. It's all hazily coming together... I will have the newsletter part where I send you emails explaining how to 'design' your life from scratch- to learn to make your own maps where currently there are none.