This is my blanket category for the site; it’s an attempt to explain a concept in a deeper way.
I work in marketing and am generally of the strong belief that it needs to evolve as a field — there’s still way too many people in the industry and running departments who think in the old-school way (ad buys, “power branding,”… Continue Reading
The absolute No. 1 thing that gets the lowest scores on any employee survey, almost regardless of industry and context, is communication. This makes perfect sense: humans are flawed beings, they often want things they can’t explain properly, they often enter… Continue Reading
Personally think the biggest two issues of the next 50-100 years are probably (a) drought and (b) inequality, with a potential (c) choice of “automating every job possible to chase profits, thus creating a world where no one can really… Continue Reading
Been having an existential crisis re: blogging the last couple of days. I’m not sure what the “next frontier” of everything is, and it’s making me a little depressed. Let’s say out some basics. I’ve been blogging here for about… Continue Reading
One of the things I hate hearing the most at any job I’ve ever had is that something happened a certain way — a half-assed way — because people had to “get it out the door.” This is what I… Continue Reading
Start by watching the above. I did last night. I was actually pretty impressed. Paul Tudor Jones is worth about $4 billion, give or take (him personally). He’s at TED basically saying, “You know what? Capitalism has been great to… Continue Reading
Want to count the ways that e-mail is awful? Sure, let’s do that. It’s probably the biggest time-suck of the modern age. Even though it’s really easy to solve many work issues with a 5-minute convo, it always becomes a… Continue Reading
I’m from NYC. I’m actually from Manhattan. I live in Texas. (Specifically, Fort Worth.) A lot of people hear those facts and say to me, “Damn! Cowtown? But you’re from the Big Apple.” My response is usually: “I actually really like Fort… Continue Reading