My 2014 Writing Roundup

With the end of the year upon us, I thought I would do a round up of everything I’ve written and published (other than here) since my last round up in August. If you missed any of these, definitely follow me on Twitter, where I post each article when it goes live. Hope you enjoy these articles and feel free to share them.

More to come in 2015!

BETABEAT

The New Media Dilemma: Eschewing Crap for Quality, Despite the Incentives (August 11, 2014)

Thought Catalog: Why I Won’t Pull My Pieces, Despite the Outrage (August 22, 2014)

Spare Us The Sanctimony: The Gross Hypocrisy of Online Media in the Nude Photo Leak (September 2, 2014)

Apple’s Free Ride: Why Journalists Treat Product Launches Like News (September 9, 2014)

Facebook Is Getting Rid of Clickbait — But Not Because They Care About You (September 15, 2014)

Who Can You Trust? A Guide To Your Online Media Diet (September 23, 2014)

The Giant Online Ad Scam: Infinite Inventory and Prices That Should Be a Red Flag (October 7, 2014)

Rage Profiteers: How Bloggers Harness Our Anger For Their Own Gain (October 21, 2014)

From Zero to 35,000: How I Built A Big Email List Exclusively About Books I Liked (November 25, 2014)

I Was Summoned by #GamerGate; Here’s What I Saw (December 3, 2014)

You Are So Terrible: A Letter About the Cosby Coverage (December 9, 2014)

No Gray Area: It’s Definitely Not OK to Publish Emails From the Sony Hack (December 12, 2014).

If You Think the Sony Hacks Were a PR Stunt, You’re an Idiot (December 26, 2014)

THOUGHT CATALOG

3 Stages To Actually Knowing What You’re Talking About: Where Are You On The Path? (August 7, 2014)

5 Criminally Underrated Things About LA (August 15, 2014)

No Matter What You Want To Change, It Won’t Be As Terrifying As The First Step You Take Toward Making It (August 21, 2014)

You’ve Been Voluntold. (August 27, 2014)

So You’ve Just Dropped Out Of College (Or Made A Life-Changing Decision) (September 2, 2014).

What Is “Work Aversion,” And Do You Have It? (September 16, 2014)

Alive Time Vs. Dead Time: Which Are You In? (September 22, 2014)

Why Do You Do What You Do? Because You Better Know. (October 2, 2014)

The 16 Best Books About Marketing, Period. (October 13, 2014)

Passion Is The Problem, Not The Solution (October 26, 2014)

13 Quotes On Being Magnanimous From Aristotle (November 3, 2014)

2 Simple Rules That Great Readers Live By (But Never Tell) (November 12, 2014)

Two Questions Every Writer Needs To Ask Themselves (November 20, 2014)

Things I Learned Reading In 2014 (November 30, 2014)

How To See Opportunity Where Others See A Roadblock (December 7, 2014)

The Difference Between Just Saying Something And Having Something Worth Saying (December 11, 2014)

3 Books You Absolutely Must Read Next Year (December 17, 2014)

Every Phone Call Can Be A Walk in The Park (December 23, 2014)

NEW YORK OBSERVER

Disrupting How Bestsellers Are Made: Apply Startup-style Growth Hacking To Publishing (October 14, 2014)

Abraham Lincoln as Media Manipulator-in-Chief: The 150 Year History of Corrupt Press (November 5, 2014)

5 Reasons Nobody Likes Tech PR (November 19, 2014)

Ryan Holiday Picks the Best Books of 2014 (December 18, 2014)

ENTREPRENEUR.COM

Capturing Repeat Customers Is the Magic of Growth Hacking (November 12, 2014)

THE NEXT WEB

Productivity Advice I Learned From People Much Smarter Than Me (November 21, 2014)

99U

This Is Why You Don’t Have a Mentor

SVBSCRIPTION

Three Ways To Refocus Your World (December 12, 2014)

STOICISM TODAY

Stoicism Is For Life, Not a Week (November 22, 2014)

GENIUS.COM

Growth Hacker Marketing (Annotated Excerpt)

LINKEDIN

The Single Worst Marketing Mistake You Can Make (October 29, 2014)

BUSINESS INSIDER

How To Build A Self-Perpetuating Marketing Machine That Reaches Millions By Itself (December 13, 2014)

Written by Ryan Holiday
Ryan Holiday is the bestselling author of Trust Me, I’m Lying, The Obstacle Is The Way, Ego Is The Enemy, and other books about marketing, culture, and the human condition. His work has been translated into thirty languages and has appeared everywhere from the Columbia Journalism Review to Fast Company. His company, Brass Check, has advised companies such as Google, TASER, and Complex, as well as Grammy Award winning musicians and some of the biggest authors in the world. He lives in Austin, Texas.