This post is number 100 on this blog, and what other best way can I celebrate than putting a list of the most insanely beautiful, meaningful, and inspiring best blog posts I have ever read?
Thinking about it now, starting this blog has changed my views about marketing, content creation, and business. (I’m still waiting for it to change my finances for good, lol.)
Most of my early posts are not that great. In fact, the first year (24 posts in total) is not really that good.
So, if I were to start again, I would use this list as an inspiration for what I should be writing about. I’ll be honest with you; I collated this list in two days of shuffling through the internet and recovering some links offhand and checking my bookmarks and pocket app, and I got a ton of fresh ideas from my blog than I ever did before. And they are ideas that really, really interest me. So, follow the blog if you haven’t.
The list can be a source of inspiration to you, too. Bookmark, share it on Twitter and show it to your friends. That way, you can remember it.
Without wasting time, let’s get started.
Business
1. How to start a million-dollar business in one weekend — Tim Ferris’s blog
2. How to make wealth — Paul Graham
3. 7 Rejections — Brian Chesky, founder of Airbnb
5. How to succeed when you have no special skills — Oliver Emberton
6. Are You Poor or Living in Poverty? This Story Will Make You Smile & Motivate(d) — ShoutMeLoud (This was first shared on Quora. It has been deleted, but you can view it through Internet Archive.)
Marketing
7. How to learn digital marketing — Nat Eliason
8. How to learn digital marketing 99 resources and 8 learning paths — Reddit (this is a Reddit post)
9. Facebook ads for beginners — Buffer
10. The 20 Best Marketing Articles of All Time, According to HubSpot’s Marketing Team
11. The 30 Best Websites to Learn Marketing for Free — Lauren Holliday
12. The LinkedIn hack that made me $120,000 — Thehustle.co
13. From 0-20 Million Views on Quora and How I Did It — Semrush
14. How to Prevent A Business Dry Spell — Mareo Forleo (check my post on how to start freelancing)
Lifestyle
15. The Most Important Question of Your Life — Mark Manson
16. In defense of being average — Mark Manson
17. Are you entertained or addicted — Mark Manson
18. How to be great. Just be good, repeatedly — Steph Smith
19. The anatomy of determination — Paul Graham
20. The cook and chef — Wait But Why
21. Hackers and painters — Paul Graham
22. Nobody Cares How Hard You Work — Behance
23. Why hard work alone isn’t enough to get ahead — BBC
24. What should I do with my life — Lauren Holliday
25. Why your late twenties is the worst time of your life — HBR
26. 11 Things You Will Regret in Your 30s — Insider
27. Greatest Lifehacks in the World — New Yorker
28. 1000 true fans — Technium
29. 10 Life Lessons To Excel in Your 30s — Mark Manson
30. 10 Painfully obvious truths everyone forgets too soon —- Markandangel.com
Essays
31. Write Till You Drop — Annie Dillard
32. The danger of a single Story — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
33. The Stringed Benefits of Failure — J K Rowling
34. Your elusive creative genius — Elizabeth Gilbert
Motivation
35. On Dying, Mothers, and Fighting for Your Ideas — Jon Morrow
36. This is not the end of your story — Naomi Dunford
37. If I were 22 — Tony Robin
Creativity
38. Secret to Creativity — Pick The Brain
39. How to get proven Ideas — Lauren Holliday
40. Where do you get your ideas — Neil Gaiman
41. How to Become a Successful Content Creator — Si Quan Ong, Ahref
42. The tyranny of ideas — Nadia Asparouhova
43. How to Be Creative — New Yorker
44. The Ultimate Deliberate Practice Guide: How to Be the Best — Farnam Street
45. Why it is awesome that your brain can experience awe — Washington Post
46. Elon Musk: The World’s Raddest Man – Wait But Why
Writing
47. On writing — J K Rowling
48. How to write a phenomenal blog post in the world full of average ones — Lauren Holliday
49. How to start a blog that changes your life — Nat Eliason
50. Writing Well — Julian Shapiro (for non-fiction writers)
51. Thoughts on writing — Elizabeth Gilbert
Publishing
Mastery
53. Zanshin: Learning the Art of Attention and Focus From a Legendary Samurai Archer — James Clear
54. The Feynman Learning Technique — Farnam Street
55. Making of An Expert — HBR (highly recommended)
56. 33 Websites that will make you a genius — Observer
Fiction Writing
57. Crafty Feeling — Zadie Smith
58. Eight Rules of Writing Fiction — New Yorker
59. Writing Web Serials — John Wilblow
60. The 2 Most Common Mistakes Writers Make with Backstory — Fiction University
61. Nuts and Bolts: “Thought” Verbs — Chuck Palahniuk
Read my posts about fiction writing:
Content Creation
62. Diversify your income: all my ideas from making money — Lauren Holliday
63. How to make your blog post go viral — Lauren Holliday
64. How to make a blog strategy — Nerville Mherdora
Miscellaneous
65. Something is wrong with the internet — Jame Bridle (a post that dates back to 2017. It looks at the things people are doing to make money on the internet. It will make a lot of sense now that AI is replacing writing and other creative jobs. While some people are working to improve the internet, some are looking for ways to gamify or make it work on autopilot, even if it means creating garbage.)
66. The Most Important Skill Nobody Taught You —- Zana Rana
67. The post above is one of the inspirations for How to be Alone without feeling like a looser)
Programming
68. Finding Programming Inspiration: Learning to Code and Launch in Months – Steph Smith
The Best blog posts Ever
69. Life is a game, and this is your strategy — Oliver Emberton
70. Caught in the study web — Fadeke Adegbuyi
What’s the most useful blog post you’ve ever read?
You can send me your list using the contact form.
If you’re a blogger and you would like to create this list, you can link back to me, and I will reach out to you to reference your list under this section.
By the way, I will go back to my archive again and see if I can find 30 more to include in this post.
Also, this could become a yearly thing because these are just the best for now. There is more to read and learn from.