Reading Time: < 1 min This past Saturday, a video started going viral that seemed to very clearly show a police officer planting drugs in a car. While the video stops abruptly, it seems to be clear what’s going on, and it looked really bad. While the video was getting passed around quite a bit and outrage was beginning to […]
Do it right or explain why it’s wrong
Reading Time: < 1 min When you’re working on something, you have two choices: do it right, or take time later to explain why it was done incorrectly. As Henry Wadsworth Longfellow said: It takes less time to do a thing right than to explain why you did it wrong. This came to mind when reading a recent post from […]
This is water
Reading Time: < 1 min Back in 2005, David Foster Wallace gave an amazing graduation speech at Kenyon College. The main focus of the speech was sonder, the idea that everyone around you has an internal life as rich and conflicted as yours. When you’re out in the world, particularly in frustrating situations such as driving or at the grocery […]
What do you think?
Reading Time: < 1 min I’ve had a bad habit over the years that my team has rightfully called me out on, and it’s one that I’m trying to break. I’ll find an interesting article and send it to one of them and simply ask them “thoughts?”. That’s not helpful. Richard Millington recently had a great post where he unpacked […]
The magic checkbox
Reading Time: 2 min I wrote yesterday about how you should work hard not to confuse Google, and one of the things I mentioned in there was to “make sure your site isn’t doing something stupid“. While that could mean a variety of things, there is one thing that rises above pretty much all of the others, and it’s […]
Just don’t confuse Google
Reading Time: < 1 min I’ve written about Search Engine Optimization on here quite a few times over the years, as there’s a lot of details involved in it. From a high level, though, there’s really just three things: Make sure your site isn’t doing something stupid. Produce great content. Don’t confuse Google. I’ve talked a lot about the first […]
Episode Zero
Reading Time: 2 min Over the past few years, it’s become popular for brand new podcasts to first publish an “Episode 0”, or something like “Introducing the xx podcast”. While introducing your podcast isn’t a bad idea, that’s not the real purpose of these initial episodes. Consistency is. The way they were built, with the exception of some shows […]
The Freedom Phone is asking for trouble
Reading Time: 2 min There’s a new phone on the market called the “Freedom Phone”, and the basic idea behind it is solid. It’s a phone that gives you more privacy and less of the tracking from companies like Google and Apple, and I think most of us can agree that’s a good thing. The problem is that the […]
Dash cams are like computer backups
Reading Time: 2 min Over the years, most of us have had a bad data loss of some kind or another. The Word doc that you wrote your paper on got corrupted. The hard drive for your computer crashed with a lot of photos on it. Things happen. In most of those cases, it’s a bit of a wake-up […]
5G has a chance
Reading Time: 2 min I wrote last year about some of the issues facing 5G, the biggest being the lack of reach, as 5G signals just don’t travel nearly as far as 4G signals do, and they never will. As I mentioned back then, if your phone shows you have a “5G” signal, you almost certainly don’t. It’s pure […]