Reading Time: < 1 min We all know it’s true, but we all do it anyhow. We know that people only show their best side on social media, yet we compare our own lives, and our messiness, to the perfectly curated feeds from others. In the book “Back to Human“, author Dan Schawbel points to a study from a few […]
Computer speed just isn’t much of an issue anymore
Reading Time: 2 min This is one of those things that sort of snuck up on me over the last decade — computer speed just isn’t really much of an issue anymore. In the early days of computing, things were crazy slow. I remember playing Jumpman on my Commodore 64, which loaded from a cassette tape. Loading the game […]
The Uplink Marketing Podcast
Reading Time: < 1 min A few days ago, I was fortunate enough to be featured on Evan Chasteen’s Uplink Marketing podcast. Throughout our 33 minute conversation, we covered a lot of interesting things, including some thoughts on the book Sapiens and how that impacts marketing, the future of AR and self-driving cars, a look at whether Facebook is really […]
The idea of ownership is fading
Reading Time: 2 min For better or worse, as time goes on we’re going to own fewer and fewer items, and lease them instead. Gizmodo recently published an article titled “In 2030, You Won’t Own Any Gadgets“, and I tend to agree with most of it. At first blush, this is a bad thing. Don’t we want to own […]
Too many internal links can be a problem
Reading Time: < 1 min When adding content to your website, linking from one of your pages to another can be a great thing! As I’ve mentioned before (and a great example of an internal link), Google ranks individual pages, not full sites. Internal links help Google move around your site and get a better feel for the structure of […]
Your phone is fracturing
Reading Time: 2 min The history of the smartphone is fascinating. For the last 20 years, various things have been coming together to help your phone replace a wide variety of separate devices, including notepads, cameras, GPS units, etc. This image is a fun example of that: Now it seems like things might be going the other way a […]
Luck isn’t a matter of chance
Reading Time: < 1 min In the book “How Luck Happens“, the authors make a clear distinction between “luck” and “chance”. Chance is out of our control. Good things happen and bad things happen, and we just need to see where things fall. Luck is a combination of three things: Chance, which is out of our control Curiosity, which we […]
We are nimble, not fast
Reading Time: 2 min Growing up in Michigan in the 90’s, I was a big fan of Barry Sanders. While the Detroit Lions were always the pits, Sanders was fun to watch. If you’ve not seen him play before, you can see some amazing highlights here or check out this quick gif: Along with those great clips, though, I […]
All of those pesky acronyms
Reading Time: < 1 min In the world of technology, there are a ton of acronyms to describe various things. For example, I’m writing this post using a CMS (Content Management System), the text looks nice thanks to CSS (Cascading Style Sheets), and I often write about things such as SEO (Search Engine Optimization). I’m a big listener of the […]
Blogging isn’t a tech issue, it’s a fame issue
Reading Time: 2 min I’ve said on here quite a few times that most everyone should have their own blog, and they should use it as the central place to share their ideas. I still fully believe that, but a recent post from Manuel Moreale has me rethinking my perspective a little bit. Here was his main point: No […]