Reading Time: 2 minA few weeks ago, PJ Vogt interviewed Ezra Klein on the Search Engine podcast. It was a fascinating interview and I encourage you to give it a listen, but one concept that Ezra shared really stuck out to me — we are generators of the media. He said this on a podcast, and I’m repeating […]
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Writing doesn’t begin with a blank page
Reading Time: 2 minIf you know you need to write something and you’re struggling with where to start, a big blank page sitting in front of you can be very intimidating. However, it doesn’t have to be that way. For me, notes are the key. Before I sit down to write anything, I already have a few notes […]
The long climb of an obsession on quality
Reading Time: 2 minI’ve mentioned the excellent “Acquired” podcast on here a few times (including learning as leverage and average advice), as it’s a fantastic show. I’m relatively new to it, but over the last year or so there are a lot of people that are new to it. Case in point, here is their growth over the […]
The Serendipity Vehicle
Reading Time: 2 minSerendipity is one of those things that just seems to kind of happen on its own, similar to luck. However, just like luck, you can do things to make those random bits of serendipity happen more often. David Perell feels that writing can be the best kind of networking, and I tend to agree. In […]
20 years of blogging
Reading Time: < 1 min20 years ago tomorrow, on March 17, 2004, I published my first blog post. Or least, it’s the oldest that I can find. WordPress was less than a year old, and my first post regarding WordPress came just a few weeks later. I’ve been hit or miss over the years. There were some very slow […]
Blogs are still among the highest-ranking pages
Reading Time: < 1 minWhile it’s been well-established that users don’t click on the “blog” page for most sites, having those posts can still be incredibly valuable. The purpose of most blogs (not this one) are to drive people to the website via Google search, and then lead them to the pages that matter (registration, purchase, etc). For those […]
You can’t hope for consumer reality
Reading Time: < 1 minA few times on Gary Vaynerchuk’s podcast I’ve heard Gary repeat a very simple phrase: “you can’t hope for consumer reality.“ His push is related to marketing, and particularly to social media. You may be comfortable using Facebook, but if your audience is teens, then Facebook promotions would almost certainly fall flat. You might love […]
Do you want to write more? Do nothing.
Reading Time: 2 minWriting can be difficult. There are times when you know it needs to be done but you just don’t want to do it (or you don’t have any ideas, or some other excuse). Neil Gaiman, author of dozens of popular books, has an excellent solution that’s served him well. When it’s time to write, he […]
Who will reap the value of AI?
Reading Time: 2 minThe future of AI is still quite muddy, but it’s clear that big changes are coming. As AI continues to develop, who stands to gain the most from it? While it could be companies like ours, or perhaps huge companies like Google or Apple, I think it might benefit the average user the most. In […]
Creativity rarely comes from a bolt of lightning
Reading Time: < 1 minIn Seth Godin’s book “The Practice“, he says: Creativity is a choice, it’s not a bolt of lightning from somewhere else. I 99% agree with him. My 1% disagreement stems from the times where creativity essentially does come out of nowhere. Some of the posts on here and some projects I’ve created in my life […]