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How to Be Stupidly Productive Like Ryan Reynolds

Mr. “part-time” actor starred in 61+ movies and owns multiple businesses

Danny Forest
7 min readJun 29, 2022
Ryan Reynolds in Betty White: First Lady of Television (2018)

Yesterday, LinkedIn recommended I follow someone famous based on similar interests. You may have heard of him — his name is Ryan Reynolds.

I was intrigued for many reasons. If you know him, you know he’s a prolific actor. He has lead roles in multiple movies every year. Given how, on LinkedIn, I’m into tech and startups, I wondered how we were a match.

It turns out, he’s very much a startup guy. So much so, in fact, that his tag line is this:

Screencap of Ryan Reynolds’ LinkedIn profile

Wait, what?

The dude’s only a part-time actor? And he does that many movies every year? Again, according to his profile, he has always only been part-time:

A simple Google search showed me he was in at least 61 movies:

Results of a Google search

That’s about 2 movies a year. Working part-time…

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Danny Forest
Danny Forest

Written by Danny Forest

Polymath. Life Optimizer. Learner. Entrepreneur. Engineer. Writer.

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