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Searching for a job is becoming a job of its own. With so many open positions, tests, and interview stages, joining the workforce or moving up is becoming harder. And with screening software automatically disqualifying candidates, the chances to get some 1-on-1 time with recruiters grow thin. But you have something powerful in your corner: AI-powered resume builders can help you generate a starting resume from scratch, optimize an existing one, and help you adapt it to every single job opening y...

Click publish, exhale. Start again. Tomorrow's post doesn't write itself. What are people discussing right now? Dive into analytics, surface trends, reply to 15 DMs. And then you go viral, your sales dashboard goes through the roof—but no more free time for you in the next three weeks. Congratulations? The content hamster wheel isn't going away, but AI is here to help you run faster, with more control, and higher capacity to react to trends. It can listen in on social conversations that matter t...

Back when I was scrolling through my first website in the mid-'90s—I'm almost certain it was SpaceJam.com—web forms were still in their nascent stage. Websites were treated more as one-way communication devices, like newspapers. Forms changed all that. At first, forms were clunky HTML elements that you had to pinch-and-zoom to interact with on small screens. Eventually, Jotform, Typeform, and other online form builders came along to improve the user experience and boost conversions. Jotform and...

You've probably used software built with Claude Code, maybe even already today. Companies like HubSpot and Atlassian use it to fix bugs and ship new features, and Anthropic itself reports that 80% of Claude's code was generated with its AI coding tool. Originally built for engineers, Claude Code packs a wide range of capabilities to speed up the software development process. But it's so easy to pick up that non-technical folks have jumped in to build their custom tools and prototypes, too. I'm s...

Anthropic's Claude family has four primary models: Haiku, Sonnet, Opus, and Fable. The version numbers are inconsistent between them; as I write this, Opus 5.5 just dropped, Fable 5.1 came out on September 1, 2026, Sonnet 5 was released on June 30, 2026, and Haiku is still on 4.5 and launched in October 2025—though a new model is due out soon. There's also Mythos, but the general public doesn't have access to that. All four Claude models are incredibly capable. Even the smallest model, Haiku, i...

If you want to change your life—like really, seriously, no bullshit, actually change your life—do this: Step 1: Write down everything you care about. Step 2: Arrange the list from most important to least important. Step 3: Cross out everything but the top 3 things. Step 4: Re-organize everything you do around those three things. People make this mistake of setting new goals every January 1st, but forget that goals are the path, not the destination. Your real destination is your purpose. Your goals just inform that purpose. “Cool, Mark. Now WTF does that actually mean?” For example: My goals change every year. But my purpose hasn’t budged over the last decade. I want to improve the quality and resources for personal growth and development to help move humanity forward. So every year, I set new goals to further that purpose. Some years, it was writing books. Other years, it…

In 2023, my publisher offered me $5 million to write my next book. I said no. From 2016 to 2022, I was in full-blown author mode. Writing, touring, promoting. It felt like one never-ending deadline—and by the end of it, I was completely burnt out. By 2022, I felt drawn back to entrepreneurship. The creator space had changed dramatically. AI was emerging. Everything was moving fast—and writing a book all of a sudden felt like the slowest, least relevant thing I could do. The problem was, I was still on the hook for another book. A big one. With a massive payday. I had an impossible decision to make: Turn down the money and work on what I want? Or take the money and spend the next year or two cashing the checks? My agent warned me: “If you don't write this book, there’s a very good chance they’ll cancel…

On a random night last January, I sat down next to a guy at a poker table. A month later, we decided to start a company together. Little did I know, it would completely change my life. The guy’s name was Raj. We started talking between hands, and Raj asked what I was working on. “I've been trying to solve this scaling problem in personal growth,” I told him. “I was about to buy an AI company to do it, but the deal just fell through.” “That's funny,” Raj said. “I've been building AI companies for ten years. Just exited my last one. I’ve spent a year on sabbatical figuring out what's next.” I asked him what he landed on. “Whatever I build next has to be in AI and mental health. Or AI and personal growth. I want to work on something that actually helps people at scale.” I…

This year has been one of the most important, yet challenging years of my life. And as we’ll see, that might not be a coincidence. As you probably know, I’ve been calling out some of the shady dealings and worst practices of the self-help industry for my entire career. Whether it’s slimy sales tactics, unrealistic and unscientific advice, or promising results that simply aren’t possible, I’ve dedicated much of my adult life to “cleaning up” this space as much as possible. You could even say that I have come to see this as my purpose, my calling in life. About a year ago, a number of people I know started asking me about using ChatGPT as a therapist or life coach. Turns out, millions of people were doing this. I was intrigued, so I tried it out. The results were… mixed. Very mixed. On the one hand, AI has access…

What is your biggest fear? What would it mean if you could overcome that fear, once and for all? In this article, I'm going to help you do exactly that by teaching you five tactics to conquer anything you might be afraid of. Heights, spiders, small spaces, strangely-shaped clouds—whatever makes your knees turn to water and keeps you up at night. These five tactics are universal and proven. In fact, last year I used them to help two readers who were afraid of driving overcome their fear over a single weekend, then shared the results on my YouTube channel. https://youtu.be/pZXzLN2miq8?si=AZgbNR_VVyvcnCY5 Ready for those five tactics? Let's hear them. 1. Exposure Therapy The core of attacking any fear is something in psychology known as exposure therapy. Exposure therapy. (2024). In Wikipedia. Exposure therapy is exactly what it says. You take something you're afraid of and gradually expose yourself to it, first…

Now and then, we all have those nights. It’s a little too late and your brain starts asking way too many questions, auditing your life at the time when it’s least generous. Until finally it lands on The Question: “Is this it?” Not that your life is bad. You got some of the good stuff. The post This Is How To Find Meaning In Life: 5 Secrets From Research appeared first on Barking Up The Wrong Tree.

We don’t think about it much, but a surprising amount of life involves strategy. Career goals. Negotiating salary and major purchases. And the near-constant attempts at persuading others that we engage in every day. So how do we get better at strategy? Well, we could do a lot worse than studying Napoleon. Yeah, the hand-in-jacket The post How To Be Strategic: 5 Secrets From History’s Greatest General appeared first on Barking Up The Wrong Tree.

Becoming happy isn’t hard. Ice cream usually does the trick. Staying happy, now there’s a challenge. Often, it doesn’t take much for us to lose our cool and let positive feelings slip away. That said, there’s plenty of advice out there on becoming happy, but not too much on staying happy. So who can help The post How To Stay Happy: 4 Secrets From History’s Happiest Philosopher appeared first on Barking Up The Wrong Tree.

There’s something you want. And you think to yourself, “Once I get it, everything’s gonna change!” And you get it. Boom. You feel fantastic. Your brain does a little victory lap around the inside of your skull. But the feeling doesn’t last. The magic gradually fades away. So what do you do then? “Well, uh, The post This Is How To Get What You Really Want: 6 Secrets From Research appeared first on Barking Up The Wrong Tree.

How do we live a good life? Gahhhhhhhhh. Why don’t we ever deal with easy questions on this blog, huh? Who decides this stuff? (Don’t answer that.) Look, alright, nobody, and I mean NOBODY, knows what they’re doing. I spent the first few decades of my life thinking everybody else received a Secret Pamphlet and The post This Is How To Live A Good Life: 5 Secrets From Ancient Wisdom appeared first on Barking Up The Wrong Tree.