Reading Time: < 1 minWe all know it’s true, but we all do it anyhow. We know that people only show their best side on social media, yet we compare our own lives, and our messiness, to the perfectly curated feeds from others. In the book “Back to Human“, author Dan Schawbel points to a study from a few […]
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Computer speed just isn’t much of an issue anymore
Reading Time: 2 minThis is one of those things that sort of snuck up on me over the last decade — computer speed just isn’t really much of an issue anymore. In the early days of computing, things were crazy slow. I remember playing Jumpman on my Commodore 64, which loaded from a cassette tape. Loading the game […]
The Uplink Marketing Podcast
Reading Time: < 1 minA few days ago, I was fortunate enough to be featured on Evan Chasteen’s Uplink Marketing podcast. Throughout our 33 minute conversation, we covered a lot of interesting things, including some thoughts on the book Sapiens and how that impacts marketing, the future of AR and self-driving cars, a look at whether Facebook is really […]
The idea of ownership is fading
Reading Time: 2 minFor better or worse, as time goes on we’re going to own fewer and fewer items, and lease them instead. Gizmodo recently published an article titled “In 2030, You Won’t Own Any Gadgets“, and I tend to agree with most of it. At first blush, this is a bad thing. Don’t we want to own […]
Your phone is fracturing
Reading Time: 2 minThe history of the smartphone is fascinating. For the last 20 years, various things have been coming together to help your phone replace a wide variety of separate devices, including notepads, cameras, GPS units, etc. This image is a fun example of that: Now it seems like things might be going the other way a […]
All of those pesky acronyms
Reading Time: < 1 minIn the world of technology, there are a ton of acronyms to describe various things. For example, I’m writing this post using a CMS (Content Management System), the text looks nice thanks to CSS (Cascading Style Sheets), and I often write about things such as SEO (Search Engine Optimization). I’m a big listener of the […]
The history of the 72 dpi myth
Reading Time: < 1 minMost designers were taught in school that images for print should be 300 dpi (or “ppi” if you prefer – I use them interchangeably), and images for the web should be 72 dpi. While the print number is accurate in most cases, the web number is completely unnecessary as I explained in detail nearly a […]
The ability to search well is a skill
Reading Time: < 1 minI see it a lot in various Facebook groups, and even a bit from some of our clients. A question is asked, and the first thought is “why didn’t they just Google that?”. Perhaps they did, but they just didn’t know how to phrase it properly. For example, if someone’s website just went down, they […]
My recent Google searches
Reading Time: 3 minA recent episode of the Reply All podcast had a few of the hosts digging into each others search history. The results were interesting and funny, so I thought I’d dig back the past few weeks of mine to see what kind of interesting things I’ve been looking for. You can find yours (if you […]
Technology is deeper than you think
Reading Time: 2 minI’ve said before that I don’t think Facebook is listening to you through your phone, but the truth is perhaps much worse. The amount of detail (and information they can derive from that) is staggering. This crazy technology can be a good thing, too. I’ve thought for years that companies like Apple would find a […]