Google AI Overviews are devouring search traffic
Reading Time: 2 minutesAs Google continues to push their “AI Overviews” (the AI snippets at the top of search results), we’re seeing a greater and greater decrease in…
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The Sunday Summary: Problematic screenshots, avoiding website traffic, Nexus, and Readwise
Reading Time: 3 minutesHere’s a bit about what I wrote, read and learned over the past week. I hope you find it helpful! Blog posts from the past…
The JFK conspiracy theory is comforting
Reading Time: < 1 minuteI’ve long struggled to understand why some people cling so tightly to conspiracy theories around things like 9/11 or the COVID vaccine, but I recently…
Deletion is a gift
Reading Time: < 1 minuteIf you’re going to be providing information to someone else, whether it’s a speech, a meeting, or a presentation, one of the best gifts you…
Optimizing for website traffic is dumb
Reading Time: < 1 minuteIt can be tempting to try to optimize your website to get more traffic, because with all things being the same, more traffic will lead…
Edit before you record
Reading Time: < 1 minuteIf you’ve listened to any episodes of my Stacking Knowledge podcast, you probably noticed that they’re quite raw as I intentionally do very little editing…
Screenshots continue to be lazy and problematic
Reading Time: 2 minutesI’ve mentioned for years that the trend of sharing screenshots of articles (instead of links to the article) is very problematic, and I recently saw…
You have the power that your distant ancestors had
Reading Time: < 1 minuteIt’s interesting how some things can revert back to how they used to be. With computers, we used to have terminals hooked up to mainframes,…
The Sunday Summary: Books, Steve Jobs, Superhuman, and the Agentic Web
Reading Time: 2 minutesHere’s a bit about what I wrote, read and learned over the past week. I hope you find it helpful! Blog posts from the past…
What is the best process for reading books?
Reading Time: 2 minutesI read quite a few books every year. You certainly know of people that read many more than I do, but I do alright. That…
Devil and the Deep Blue Sea
Reading Time: 2 minutesI recently finished listening to the podcast series “Devil and the Deep Blue Sea” (thanks to encouragement from my friend Tim), and it was amazing….
I’d rather listen to Steve Jobs
Reading Time: < 1 minuteOne of the overarching themes on the “Founders” podcast is his idea of “learning from the world’s greatest entrepreneurs“. For the cost of a book,…
The goal should be less, not more
Reading Time: < 1 minuteIn most areas of life, less is more. If you have fewer fields on your website contact form, more people will fill it out. You…
What caused the conversion?
Reading Time: < 1 minuteDetermining where traffic to your website really came from is becoming more and more difficult. It you just look at the last touch, it’ll lie…
Books are a public service
Reading Time: < 1 minuteI really hate the way that information is trending into an increasingly vaporous format. As I recently shared from “The Future of Text”, our content…
The Sunday Summary: Meditation, the Brighter Circle, the Knowledge of London, and Snipd
Reading Time: 2 minutesHere’s a bit about what I wrote, read and learned over the past week. I hope you find it helpful! Blog posts from the past…
Target walked through two one-way doors
Reading Time: 2 minutesA few years ago I shared the idea that some decisions are one-way doors and some are two-way doors, and knowing the difference is important….
Single-focus AI tools are dead
Reading Time: < 1 minuteIt was pretty easy to see coming, and I think we’ve arrived — AI tools that are built for a single purpose are dead. Over…
Market for sales, not vanity
Reading Time: 2 minutesWhen it comes to building a website or marketing your business, one thing matters the most — sales. A beautiful website or a ton of…
A Brighter Circle
Reading Time: 2 minutesFor nearly 13 years, we’ve hosted a monthly(ish) Meetup here in Marietta which we call “A Brighter Web”, and it’s been great! We have a…