Stephan Miller

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!The books and web pages I read affect me a lot. I use them as tools sometimes. If I read a book on productivity, I become more productive while I am reading it. If I read a book on [...]

I have gradually built up a list of invisible rules for this blog. What are invisible rules? Rules set by the popularity of past posts. Rules that cause writer’s block and stage fright. And I hate rules.
Why are they invisible? Because I never stated them to myself but they pop up whenever I have a [...]

One of the first things you want to do when starting a new blog is find the neighborhoods that you will hang out in when you are working on your blog. These will be the blogs you comment on, get news from and reference when writing the posts on your own blog.
Google Reader
I am a [...]

I have been trying to start another blog lately. At least, that’s what I am telling myself.
It’s a clean slate right now and that’s a good place to start. I have started many sites but it is hard to make the first move. Is that the right amount of categories? Did I cover everything? Will [...]

Traveling Detail Light
When studying a new technology, I plunge in headfirst. I have read a lot of books and from experience, despite what I learned from books, I still had to have a picture of what I was trying to learn on my own.
Up to that point, I was basically following directions, hoping that the [...]

Dealing with Incomplete Information
I learned in a De Bono thinking course that for some things, you will just never have complete information. So there is some point where you have to stop learning and researching and you have to move on to doing. You could research for the rest of your life and never come [...]

I sometimes look back at the posts I have written and then back at my site and think, "Damn, these people must think I’m an asshole."
I say, "You need to do this. This works too. And try this."
When I look at this blog and other sites I have, none actually fit the perfect rules I [...]

Look for another post today, but for now I have to get the word out on this. Here is the table of contents and yes, my name is in there.
A WordPress Super Star Alex Sysoef ………………………………………..5
How to Make Money Online with Stephan Miller ………………………9
An Internet Genius Yagiz Nizipli………………………………………………..13
Web Technology by Ash Chuan. …………………16
The Extreme Ezine [...]

I have been reading The Four Hour Work Week lately. It takes a while. I get a half hour in here and ten minutes there, but I will get through it. It has made me take a hard look at my habits.
A lot of my time is spent checking sales, checking stats, checking for comments [...]

I have said many times before that I don’t get writer’s block. No, I just have days where anything I type turns magically into crap right before my eyes and no matter how much I beat it with a stick, it still is not that great.
There are days when I can write article after article [...]