Reading Time: < 1 min It can be easy to wait for inspiration to strike before you write your next blog post or record your next video. Many times, though, the waiting will never end. Prior to 2020, I generally blogged when I “felt inspired”. I intended to post a few times a week, but usually only posted once a […]
Fix the damage, don’t bury it
Reading Time: < 1 min In the past few months, I’ve seen a few situations on social media that were odd to me. First, a few months friend of mine shared a fake story related to George Floyd and his family. After he posted, it was shared a handful of times by other friends of his. Eventually someone pointed out […]
Fuzzy boundaries can be powerful
Reading Time: < 1 min We’re stuck in a weird place in our world right now, where people are feeling like they have to set up firm boundaries around their beliefs. There’s also the angle that if you take one position, like supporting gun rights, you are forced to take a particular position on a separate subject, like opposing abortion […]
Slow growth is stable
Reading Time: < 1 min When we’re starting something new, many of dive in completely. Workouts go from 0 to brutal. Reading goes from 2 books/year to 2 books/week. Running goes from never to 20 miles/week. Most often, we burn out and these all end quickly and poorly. You need to decide, particularly early on in a new venture, to […]
“Here I am” or “there you are”?
Reading Time: < 1 min There are two kinds of people in this world. Those that show up to be seen, and those that show up to see others. In his book “High Performance Habits“, author Brendon Burchard puts it this way: “There are two types of people. One walks into the room and announces, ‘Here I am!’ The other […]
100 books you need to read before you die
Reading Time: 2 min A few weeks ago, “SeekLifeMastery” posted a fantastic thread on Twitter with the “100 books you need to read before you die“. As I went through it, I found that it was indeed an excellent list, and one that I need to work on quite a bit as I’ve only read about 25 of the […]
The pretense of knowledge is our most dangerous vice
Reading Time: < 1 min In his book “Ego Is the Enemy“, author Ryan Holiday spends a good deal of time essentially breaking down the Dunning-Krueger Effect and how overconfidence can be a bad thing. Confidence, in and of itself, is valuable to have. When you become overconfident and your ego creeps in, it can often inhibit your growth. If […]
Filtering the entirety of my internetting through RSS
Reading Time: 2 min In an episode of the Cortex podcast (#122: State of the Apps 2022), one of the hosts expressed his desire (and near achievement) to “filter the entirety of my internetting through RSS“. As that’s something I’m chasing as well, I thought it was an interesting statement and something worth unpacking a bit. First, some of […]
Expand all acronyms the first time you use them
Reading Time: < 1 min This is something I’m generally pretty good about, but I need to make sure I stay focused on it. Particularly in the world of marketing, there are acronyms everywhere that you look. While I use them frequently and know what most of them mean, those that I interact with may or may not. Whatever your […]
Promotion = interruption
Reading Time: < 1 min I’ve made no secret of how much I hate interruption-based marketing. TV and radio ads are ok, because I accept them as part of the deal. The same with podcast ads; I can choose to pay for the premium ad-free version, or I can choose to listen to the ones with ads. It’s my decision, […]