The Default Course
13 pieces · 13 hours of reading
Social Media Marketing: The Default Course
A full course, not a summary: what the platforms actually reward, how to build content that works, and how to scale it without burning out or getting blindsided when a platform changes the rules on you.
Course20 min02Public Speaking: The Default Course
One skill, four very different arenas: a small meeting, a stage with hundreds of people, a livestream where you're talking to a camera and a chat window at once, and a broadcast interview where every word can be clipped out of context. This course covers all four, plus the underlying fundamentals that carry across every one of them.
Course14 min03Speed Reading: The Default Course
The marketing claim is 1,000+ words per minute with full comprehension. The actual peer-reviewed research says something much more modest, and much more useful: real, honest techniques for reading faster and retaining more — once you throw out the myths a whole industry has sold for decades.
Course13 min04Starting a Business: The Default Course
Not motivation, not a pitch-deck template — the actual procedural path: validating an idea before you build it, picking a legal structure, launching legally, pricing, cash flow, funding, your first hires, and knowing honestly when to pivot, persevere, or walk away well.
Course13 min05Memory & Spaced Repetition: The Default Course
Not "brain training" gimmicks — the real, well-tested system: why you forget on a predictable schedule, the two techniques that reliably beat that schedule, and how to build them into anything you're trying to learn for good.
Course14 min06Piano: The Default Course
Not scales for their own sake — a fast, honest path from a blank keyboard to playing real chord-based songs today, understanding why it works, and a genuine roadmap for where to go next.
Course12 min07Cooking Fundamentals: The Default Course
Not a recipe collection — the actual underlying system: knife skills, heat, the science of browning, food-safety temperatures, the five mother sauces, and how to build a real meal from what's in your kitchen without needing a recipe at all.
Course12 min08How to Write a Book: The Default Course
Fiction or non-fiction — the real process: choosing and testing an idea, structuring it, building a sustainable writing habit, getting through a first draft, and revising it into something ready to publish. Publishing itself is its own course, next in this series.
Course12 min09Publishing a Book & Audiobook: The Default Course
The companion to How to Write a Book: traditional vs. self-publishing, ISBNs and formatting, covers and pricing, launch strategy, and a full, honest walkthrough of producing an audiobook — human narrator or AI, and what each actually costs.
Course12 min10Publishing Your Music: The Default Course
Not "how to go viral" — the unglamorous, essential plumbing: distributors like DistroKid, copyright registration, PROs, mechanical royalties, and the exact registrations that stand between your music and the money it's actually owed.
Course12 min11Marketing Your Music: The Default Course
Not chasing a single viral moment — the real system: where discovery actually happens now, how to turn casual listeners into superfans, playlist pitching that works, and a release campaign built to compound over years, not one lucky week.
Course11 min12Marketing a Book: The Default Course
Three formats, three genuinely different discovery systems: the Amazon algorithm and Kindle Unlimited economics, the Audible sample that sells or loses a listener in 30 seconds, and the indie-bookstore, library, and event channels that only exist for print.
Course12 min13How to Make a Webpage: The Default Course
For anyone putting a business, a band, or their own work online: domains, AI and no-code builders, "vibe coding" a fully custom site, getting paid, selling products (physical and digital), and keeping the whole thing running — zero to a real, published page.
Course16 min