In 2006, when CEO Mark Zuckerberg was just 23, Yahoo offered a billion dollars to buy Facebook. After some consideration, Mark turned them down. Having made that decision, as Mark explained in a BBC documentary shown at the weekend, it was then easier to reject an offer the following year from Microsoft to buy the [...]

If you’ve been putting off creating your own blog or website for too long, let’s get it sorted out right now. Just follow my steps below and you’ll have a new website installed and running in 20 minutes. My solution People wait for months, even years, deliberating how to create their website or blog, what [...]

Want to know the formula for a perfect career? Your perfect career – getting paid to play – is found at the intersection of 3 factors – the things you’re good at, the things you love doing, and the things that there is a demand for. In this picture, that’s the area of overlap of [...]

Lindsey Mountford is one of the case studies in Screw Work Let’s Play. After graduating, she fell into some pretty miserable sales jobs and ended up frittering away time at work playing around on Facebook and YouTube – so she went out and found a way to get paid to do exactly that. “I came [...]

Seth Godin wrote a great post last week entitled Everyone’s model of work is a job inspired by superb essayist Paul Graham: The reason you feel most comfortable with a job (unless, like me, you’re in the minority–a job would destroy my psyche) is that you’ve been brainwashed by many years of school, socialization and [...]

I’ve decided to give my book Screw Work Let’s Play away for free – one tweet at a time. Starting today, I will be tweeting the critical ideas, tips, myths, and quotes from my book for anyone to read. Of course, it’s not practical to share all 71,000 words but you’ll get the best nuggets [...]

Hi. John Williams here, author of “Screw Work Let’s Play: How to do what you love and get paid for it”. I’ll be blogging here in advance of publication on May 27th on how to get paid to do the things you enjoy so much, it feels like play. I’ll also be adding all sorts [...]