Reading Time: 2 minIn a recent episode of Guy Kawasaki’s “Remarkable People” podcast, Seth Godin made a bold claim. He simply said: “If you have a roof over your head and enough time to listen to a podcast, you’re one of the richest people who ever lived, even if you’re in debt.” It seems a bit zany at […]
Throw a jacket on your calendar
Reading Time: 2 minSomething I’ve tried to do over the years, with marginal success, is to schedule more white space on my calendar. It seems somewhat counter-intuitive (isn’t “white space” the opposite of “scheduling”?), but it’s often the only way to make it happen. In recently reading Juliet Funt’s book “A Minute to Think“, she had a great […]
Ruining a good thing by trying too hard
Reading Time: 2 minI remember back in elementary school we had an assignment to draw a map of a fictional city. I worked hard on mine, and it was great! However, I couldn’t leave well enough alone so I kept adding more and more stuff to it until it was a huge mess. Trying too hard created a […]
The Sunday Summary: Using cash is expensive, AI detectors don’t work, and fake photos have been a problem for a long time
Reading Time: < 1 minIn an effort to help me keep up with everything I post each week, here is my latest “Sunday Summary” of my posts from the week. Mon, October 14: 97% of web pages get zero traffic from Google“The big platforms, you’re gonna take all of our traffic and that is okay because I can still […]
You are or you aren’t
Reading Time: < 1 minI was recently reading “The Challenger Sale“, and they got to talking about what makes a great sales manager. The book goes into some depth, but this part stood out to me when they were discussing the core attributes of a person (and not their sales skills specifically). From the book: Yet interestingly, we also […]
Fake photos have been a problem for a long time
Reading Time: 2 minIn the past few weeks you’ve probably seen this photo of a little girl holding her puppy during the flooding from Hurricane Helene. You probably also know that it was AI-generated. This type of thing seems like a growing problem, and it is, but I was surprised to see how far back the problem of […]
AI detectors simply don’t work
Reading Time: < 1 minEven though they’re widely known not to work, AI detecting software is still on the rise. Even those that work a little bit are getting worse every day as AI continues to improve. I saw a quote on Reddit that summed it up nicely, where a user said: If AI could ever be used to […]
Using cash is expensive
Reading Time: < 1 minI recently listened a the long episode about Visa on the Acquired podcast, and it was fantastic. Visa is one of those companies that we all think we know, but it’s really quite confusing. From the show: Visa does not extend credit. They do not issue cards. They do not work directly with merchants. They […]
You couldn’t tell who the bosses were
Reading Time: < 1 minTom Murphy is one of those guys that not enough people know about it. He ran Capital Cities Communications (which you also likely haven’t heard of) for years back in the 1960’s until it eventually acquired the ABC network in 1985, which was later purchased by Disney in 1986. His story is fascinating, and a […]
97% of web pages get zero traffic from Google
Reading Time: 2 minThings are changing quickly when it comes to getting your site to rank well on Google. A big one, as I shared a few months ago, is that 64% of visitors that use Google never end up visiting a traditional website, instead getting the answer from Google itself or from a related Google product (Maps, […]