--- title: "What I Read and How I Read it: Chris Brogan" description: Best-selling author and all-around nice guy Chris Brogan kicks off our new series in which we ask thought leaders how they stay on top of the news. --- [Marketing ](https://www.nlopchantamang.com/marketing) # [What I Read and How I Read it: Chris Brogan](https://www.nlopchantamang.com/marketing/opinion/what-i-read-chris-brogan) Written by [Laura Fitton](https://www.nlopchantamang.com/marketing/author/laura-fitton) | May 2, 2014 4:00:00 AM Our newest [INBOUND 2014 speaker](https://www.inbound.com/inbound14/speakers), Chris Brogan, took some time out of his busy launch week for his new book, *[The Freaks Shall Inherit the Earth](http://www.amazon.com/Freaks-Shall-Inherit-Earth-Entrepreneurship/dp/1118800559/ref=la_B002C7745S_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1398947555&sr=1-1), *to share inside info on how he stays on top of information important to his world. As a bonus, he shares four great folks you should be reading too. *** *** We're delighted to announce that best-selling author Chris Brogan will be speak at HubSpot's INBOUND 2014 conference in September. To celebrate, we're sending a free copy of *The Freaks Shall Inherit the Earth* to everyone who [registers for INBOUND](https://www.inbound.com/inbound14/register) from today until May 9. ($1499 admission is discounted to $799 ending May 31.) We caught up with Chris to ask him about his content consumption habits. In other words: what do you read, and how do you read it? ### **What is your #1 source for staying on top of your world?** Most of my business comes ultimately from my inbox these days. My media is all built to encourage sign-up to my email newsletter and/or ultimately to take my courses, and that all lives in email. ### **When and what do you read online?** I let people on Twitter, Facebook, and Google+ tell me what's interesting to them and I check out some of that. For myself, I seek out fringe content, like farm news, African tech news, and urban planning speculation reports. ### **What is your favorite place on the web?** I've been really enjoying Instagram more and more. ### **Which people or feeds or blogs do you follow?** - Calvin Lee [@mayhemstudios](https://twitter.com/mayhemstudios) for entertainment. - John Jantsch [@ducttape](https://twitter.com/ducttape)  for building business relationships. - James Altucher [@jaltucher](https://twitter.com/jaltucher) for learning/professional development. ### **Who is someone undiscovered that we should be reading?** Kamal Ravikant [@kamalravikant](http://twitter.com/kamalravikant)  ### **What is your biggest pet peeve about content? ** I'm pretty done with "7 great articles about 5 cool things." ### **What is the most memorable blog of all time?** The best blog out there is James Altucher for pure feeling and guts. It's not immediately translatable to your own business, but everyone should read it for a reminder to be bold and brave in their writing. ### **How would you rank your favorite social apps?** ### **If content types were stocks, which ones would you buy, which would you sell, and which would you hold?** BUY: podcasts, newsletters, video, blog posts. HOLD: infographics, slide desks, ebooks/white papers, books. SELL: *(none of these)* ### **What haven't we asked that you'd like to talk about?** What's driving the most value for my business is my newsletter, but I earn that value through the content I create on my blog and my podcast. It's a synergy kind of thing. *Don't miss Chris Brogan, Simon Sinek and a whole roster of incredible speakers coming to Boston September 15-18 for INBOUND 2014. Register by May 9, 2014 and we will also send you a free copy of Chris Brogan's book *The Freaks Shall Inherit the Earth. Originally published May 2, 2014 9:00:00 AM, updated October 20 2016 ### Don't forget to share this post! [View full post](https://www.nlopchantamang.com/marketing/opinion/what-i-read-chris-brogan) ```json { "@context" : "http://schema.org", "@type" : "BlogPosting", "author" : { "@type" : "Person", "name" : "Laura Fitton" }, "dateModified" : "2021-10-05T17:49:33.459Z", "datePublished" : "2014-05-02T04:00:00Z", "headline" : "What I Read and How I Read it: Chris Brogan", "image" : { "@type" : "ImageObject", "height" : 60, "url" : "/hs/hsstatic/content_shared_assets/static-1.4092/img/default-amp-logo.png", "width" : 60 }, "mainEntityOfPage" : "https://www.nlopchantamang.com/marketing/opinion/what-i-read-chris-brogan", "publisher" : { "@type" : "Organization", "logo" : { "@type" : "ImageObject", "height" : 60, "url" : "/hs/hsstatic/content_shared_assets/static-1.4092/img/default-amp-logo.png", "width" : 60 }, "name" : "Marketing" } } ```