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Posts by: Adam Clark

Adam Clark is the host of The Gently Mad podcast. He also writes a weekly newsletter at avclark.com and teaches people about podcasting at IrresistiblePodcasting.com.

It’s 6 a.m. on launch day and, after staying up all night, I’m still working furiously to finish my online course so I don’t disappoint the 132 people who pre-purchased. “Why do I keep doing this?,” I thought. I would like to think I’ve matured in 15 years, but I’ve been repeating the same all-nighter-before-a-deadline pattern since college.