Reading Time: < 1 min In 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, April 22: Sit quietly in a room aloneIt can be a very difficult thing to do, but can you sit quietly in a room alone? Tue, April 23: […]
They don’t care about your hot take regarding TikTok
Reading Time: < 1 min I was on a call recently with a potential client, and we got pretty deep into what he was looking to accomplish. I sort of summarized the call by saying something like “We’ll sell you a website and marketing, but I know that you’re just buying phone calls.“ Most businesses don’t want to improve their […]
Taglines vs Headlines
Reading Time: < 1 min This was from a short conversation I had a few weeks ago, and I thought it was worth sharing. What’s the difference between a “tagline” and a “headline”? Here’s how I see it. Taglines define your company. Nike is “Just Do It”. Apple used “Think Different” for years. Our is “Building a Brighter Web”. They’re […]
Ask for advice, not feedback
Reading Time: < 1 min Sometimes just a little shift in wording can make a huge difference. In Adam Grant’s book “Hidden Potential“, he explains the difference between seeking feedback and seeking advice: Instead of seeking feedback, you’re better off asking for advice. Feedback tends to focus on how well you did last time. Advice shifts attention to how you […]
We are generators of the media
Reading Time: 2 min A 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 […]
Cooperation wins, even if you lose every time
Reading Time: 2 min The most famous problem in game theory is called “The Prisoner’s Dilemma“, and you’ve likely seen it play out in game shows over the years. In game shows, it often comes down to the final two players with a secret vote to split the pot or try to take more for themselves, and the logic […]
Sit quietly in a room alone
Reading Time: 2 min Can you sit quietly in a room alone? According to many ideas in the book “Unlimited Memory“, it’s a great thing to do. They start with a quote from Blaise Pascal that brought the title of this post: “All man’s miseries derive from not being able to sit quietly in a room alone.” Related was […]
The Sunday Summary: Generosity, presentations, cold outreach, and the internet isn’t getting worse
Reading Time: < 1 min In 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, April 15: Don’t ascribe attribution to Google when other investments drove the real valueIt’s easy to look at your stats and see a bunch of traffic coming from […]
The commodity versus the product
Reading Time: < 1 min What is it that you sell? Even if it’s just one product, it’s really more than one thing to your customer. As an example, in his classic book “The E-Myth Revisited” author Michael Gerber shares this quick note about what Revlon actually sells: Charles Revson, the founder of Revlon and an extraordinarily successful entrepreneur, once […]
The internet isn’t getting worse either
Reading Time: 2 min Over the past few years I’ve shared thoughts on how the world is much better than people think. Murder rates are down, reports of missing children are down, school shootings are down, the economy is doing great, etc. Things are far from perfect, and we always need to be working to make things even better, […]