# SPYR

Your design partner when simple matters

Source: https://spyr.me/

## Latest posts

- [Audience of Ones](https://spyr.me/audience-of-ones/) — 2023-08-07
  You don’t need an audience of millions, thousands, or even hundreds to have a thriving business. You can also be wildly successful with an audience of ones. Just build accordingly.
- [How to have an interesting life](https://spyr.me/interested/) — 2023-08-02
  Life stays interesting when we’re interested. Striving to keep a childlike curiosity is striving to live a rich life. A sign that you’ve got your shit together isn’t having the right answer. It’s knowing there isn’t one.
- [You’ve learned enough](https://spyr.me/procrastination/) — 2023-07-31
  No one learns how to ride a bike by reading a book. You’ve conceptualized enough.Now you’re procrastinating. Take action on your big idea.Start right now.Keep going. And, surprise, you’ll never stop learning.
- [Everything is made up, nothing matters](https://spyr.me/excuses/) — 2023-07-21
  I constantly talk to people who aren’t doing their thing because: excuses. Then I invariably say, “Everything’s made up and nothing matters.” Then they laugh. They always laugh. Not because it’s funny. But because it’s uncomfortable.And because they know it’s…
- [Learn from the next, not the best](https://spyr.me/copy/) — 2023-07-20
  Always consider who you’re emulating. Someone a few steps ahead is growing because of their actions. Someone already wildly successful or famous can be doing so despite them.
- [How to be unstoppable](https://spyr.me/unstoppable/) — 2023-07-18
  Remember:You don’t know what you don’t know. Stay curious. Explore your interests, but also explore the void of the unknown. Do this forever. The connections you make will be uniquely yours. And you’ll be unstoppable.
- [How do I start a business with no ideas?](https://spyr.me/archaeologist/) — 2023-07-18
  Opportunity is abundant if you’re an internet archaeologist. Substack is brilliant: paid email newsletters for writers to finally own their audience and revenue. But they weren’t the first platform to do this. If you were on Twitter in 2011, you…
- [How to use AI effectively](https://spyr.me/how-to-use-ai/) — 2023-07-17
  Effective, concise communication should be the number one area of focus for anyone hoping to excel with AI. The output of a given system is only as good as its input. Garbage in, garbage out. To successfully work with an…
- [How to hire and add people to your team.](https://spyr.me/how-to-hire/) — 2016-01-02
  Much of our writing happens behind closed doors. We spend a lot of time coaching fellow entrepreneurs, but most of what we share goes off into cyberspace never to be seen again. So today I wanted to share an answer…
- [Portrait Shoot: Farmer Wayne](https://spyr.me/farmer-wayne-portrait/) — 2015-06-17
  We recently spent some time with our CSA Farmer, Farmer Wayne, and snapped some new portraits.
- [Starting a Blog: A Video Tutorial with Joshua Fields Millburn](https://spyr.me/starting-a-blog/) — 2015-06-04
  We’re constantly asked how to start a blog so Josh and I filmed a simple step by step tutorial this past weekend. Shot in beautiful Fargo, ND.
- [Every Fleeting Moment](https://spyr.me/every-fleeting-moment/) — 2015-05-21
  This is it. The day we were born began our final countdown. “On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero.” – Fight Club
- [Nowhere, Wyoming](https://spyr.me/nowhere-wyoming/) — 2015-05-20
  The silence is unsettling as we enter the cafe. It’s a sleepy town – Nowhere, Wyoming. We glance around the wood paneled, yellow room. The vinyl chairs and small tables are familiar. Yet the scene utterly disconcerting.
- [Man in a Box](https://spyr.me/man-in-a-box/) — 2015-05-16
  I’m 6’4″, can’t touch my toes, and am somewhat claustrophobic. Despite that, I spend a lot of time in boxes. Kinda like cats. But, you know… not.
- [You do NOT want me on your basketball team. You will lose.](https://spyr.me/you-do-not-want-me-on-your-basketball-team-you-will-lose/) — 2015-03-31
  In seventh grade I tried to fit in by joining both the basketball and football teams, the latter of which I quit almost immediately. Couldn’t, for the life of me, figure out where to put all those goddamn pads and…
- [Off The Wagon](https://spyr.me/off-the-wagon/) — 2015-03-25
  Today I broke my streak. And I had a good one going. We’re not talking hours or days here, but weeks. Pretty epic really, maybe even a personal best but I’ll need to confirm that. What is this impressive streak,…
- [How to Find the Largest, Most Bandwidth-Heavy Files on Your Site](https://spyr.me/find-large-site-files/) — 2015-02-03
  We recently experienced a large increase in traffic on Paleo Porn and received a notice from Synthesis that we were on pace to exceed our monthly bandwidth allotment. At first glance it’s a simple fix. Simply look at the most…
- [Affiliate Marketing for the Rest of Us](https://spyr.me/creative-affiliate-marketing/) — 2014-01-15
  This article appeared first in the InMotion Hosting newsletter First, a disclaimer: We are not affiliate marketers. At least not in the traditional sense. According to nearly every article on affiliate marketing, achieving success is a complicated, cut-throat endeavor requiring…
- [The Minimalists Everything That Remains Preview Event (New York City)](https://spyr.me/everything-that-remains-nyc/) — 2013-12-17
- [The Carnoirval: An iPhone Photo Series](https://spyr.me/the-carnoirval/) — 2013-11-18