I don't trust anything you see in the media — anything. And I have real reason behind this. In September/October 2014 I was in Liberia during the Ebola outbreak (my first career was a full-time photojournalist/videographer for NGOs) and I was staying in the compound shared by
This year, I have gotten more messages about one specific subject than anything else by far. On Reddit (where I engage regularly in PPC & agency related topics) I’ve gotten 41 messages this month alone…and of those, 37 of them were asking about SMMA. To be honest, even
Last year, I sent a newsletter (almost) every week. This year, it'll be a newsletter every month. Couple reasons: first, writing a newsletter each week takes up a lot of time, and second, I simply don't have that much to say. If you’ve ever watched
This week I’d like to talk about the ADE 651 bomb detection device. It is purely coincidental that tomorrow is the twentieth anniversary of September 11th, an event that triggered two decades of violent changes that were all…without an exception…bad news for just about everyone. But that
If you're like me, when you're researching things online, you'll often realize that you've just ingested extremely biased information. Unfortunately, there is no instant antidote for incorrect information, usually since you don't know if it's poison or not.
Nothing is gentle. Things go parabolic. As much as common wisdom would like you to believe, there is no such thing as a gentle ramp. The stock market doesn't just gradually crash. You don't just gradually win a race. Zoom in to any graph far enough,
In the venture capital world (of which I am not a part, but I enjoy peeking into) there are tools used to classify, categorize, and compare potential startup investment opportunities. Some of these are public-facing, others are internal processes developed in-house on Sand Hill Road (the area of Silicon Valley
It’s pretty much a law of hobbies: The more niche and expensive the hobby, the worse the website. I’ve unfortunately picked a few extremely expensive hobbies (cars and guns) and one of the downsides (benefits?) of these hobbies are that I am periodically forced to order $400 steering
Talk to your everyday, run-of-the-mill economist (the sort you often run into at the gas station) and you’ll hear about economies of scale. Distilled to a basic level: increasing production lowers cost. The bigger, the more efficient. It makes sense in a lot of ways. If you were to
This week I want to talk about disruption. I hate writing that word. It’s been co-opted into business jargon. You know, like when folks talk about developing cross-functional teams with agile methodology and flat hierarchy. (Sentences like that are exactly why I quit my last job, the one right
In 1987, things were different with the mail. Email was essentially unknown, and the first boxy white USPS trucks (built by Grumman) were just entering service. In 2021, email is ubiquitous, and apparently the USPS just hired Gru from Despicable Me as their new delivery driver. The internet of yesterday