Reading Time: min It’s popular to say that our attention spans are getting shorter (though not like a goldfish), but that may not be entirely true. Studies are mixed, but it’s… Read More

Reading Time: 2 min I’ve shared a few times on here how precise attribution of online activities is becoming more and more difficult to track. It feels like companies are collecting e… Read More

Reading Time: 2 min One of the big challenges of productivity is determining what meta work (the work around your work) is worth your time. For me, a big one is playing with productivity to… Read More

Reading Time: 2 min On September 17, 1787, Benjamin Franklin gave a speech at the Constitutional Convention which led to the signing of the Constitution. Franklin wasn’t convinced tha… Read More

Reading Time: 2 min The idea of a “sunk cost” has always been interesting to me. I understand it rather well, but it often feels counter-intuitive. As a result, I love finding n… Read More

Reading Time: 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, July 15: Three ways of… Read More

Reading Time: 2 min I try to stay in touch with many people in my life, as relationships of all kinds are generally a great thing to have. I also notice when others reach out to me, which i… Read More

Reading Time: 2 min I know a lot of people through my personal life and a lot of people through my work life, but there’s an important third group — people that are in both. In… Read More

Reading Time: min One of the biggest problems people face on their phones is getting sucked into a bout of “doomscrolling” — just mindlessly going through never-ending so… Read More

Reading Time: min At first glance, writing down ideas or thoughts seems like a waste of time. If you have an idea, act on it. If you have something to do, do it! When it comes to to-do… Read More

Reading Time: min It’s always good to be able to solve a problem, but it’s often far better to help make the problem crystal clear before you try to solve it. I was recently… Read More

Reading Time: min I was recently listening to a great podcast about the life of Alexander Hamilton on “How To Take Over the World”. I encourage you to listen the full show your… Read More

Reading Time: 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, July 8: I know a guy i… Read More

Reading Time: min We all know that our time is limited. 86,400 seconds every day seems like a lot, but our entire life is only around 4,000 weeks (if we’re lucky) which sounds shocki… Read More

Reading Time: 2 min The latest episode of the “You’re Wrong About” podcast focuses on phones, and makes the argument that phones are generally a good thing for people to h… Read More

Reading Time: 4 min Over the years we’ve refined our approach in working with clients to help make sure the relationship is solid, successful, and mutually enjoyable. As we’ve h… Read More

Reading Time: min When asked “what keyboard do you use on your phone?”, I’m guessing the answer that most people give is “the one it came with”, but you may b… Read More

Reading Time: 2 min An interesting trend I’ve noticed over the last few years is for websites to include links to their social media platforms at the very top of the site. It seems co… Read More

Reading Time: 3 min Our family recently spent a week in New York, and one of those days we spent with Adam Guy of “I Know a Guy” to be our personal tour guide for the day. Him a… Read More

Reading Time: 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, July 1: You control th… Read More

Reading Time: min I often struggle with a bit of imposter syndrome (“a psychological pattern in which an individual doubts their skills, talents or accomplishments and has a persiste… Read More

Reading Time: min One of my favorite new words in the past few years is “sonder” — that moment when you realize that everyone around you has an internal life as rich and… Read More

Reading Time: min One of the things that have made the Savannah Bananas baseball team so popular (as shared in the book “Banana Ball“) was very simple — remove as much fr… Read More

Reading Time: 2 min It’s a trend that has been growing for years, but the number of “zero-click” searches on Google continues to grow (where a zero-click search is one whe… Read More

Reading Time: 2 min I’ve only been taking solid daily notes for about four years now; that may sound like a lot, but compared to many folks it’s not much at all. One of those th… Read More

Reading Time: min I recently read the excellent book “Banana Ball“, the story of the Savannah Bananas baseball team. I was well-aware of the team, but have yet to attend a game… Read More

Reading Time: 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, June 24: Niagara Launc… Read More

Reading Time: 2 min In Adam Grant’s book “Think Again” he references Paul Graham’s “hierarchy of disagreement”, saying: “In the hierarchy of di… Read More

Reading Time: min I’ve shared a few times on here how good decisions can have bad outcomes, and vice-versa, but that only really counts if you know what your desired outcome is. In t… Read More

Reading Time: min There are certain people in your life that are indispensable. They can be indispensable in various ways, but I loved this description from Dinah Maria Craik (from her boo… Read More

Reading Time: min Attention is a scare resource, so when someone is willing to give you their attention it’s wise to make good use of it. The Founders podcast recently released a fan… Read More

Reading Time: min I was recently reading Kevin Paul Scott’s “Inspired Every Day“, and one little statement he made hit me very hard. He simply said: “Who is the… Read More

Reading Time: 2 min One of the popular features on Android phones over the years is the ability to change to a different launcher. The “launcher” is essentially the software tha… Read More

Reading Time: 2 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, June 17: Productivity… Read More

Reading Time: min Attention is likely the greatest asset in the world. If you want to sell products, sell ads, lead an organization, or lead a movement, you need people to pay attention to… Read More

Reading Time: min Jim Sinegal was one of the cofounders of Costco and had some amazing quotes captured over the years. My favorite, while not related to this post, was what he told his suc… Read More

Reading Time: min It can feel counter-intuitive at first, but when a company focuses on service over revenue they likely earn even more money than if they had flipped that. Back in 1997… Read More

Reading Time: 2 min We see it in all walks of life — people that make things look effortless. This could be someone giving a talk, an athlete, a musician, or any number of others. The… Read More

Reading Time: 2 min Work-life balance is one of those things that can be interpreted in many different ways. Generally speaking, I find that balance not to be in a perfect 9-5, 50/50 kind o… Read More

Reading Time: 2 min An interesting article recently came out about Wells Fargo firing more than a dozen employees who were faking their work. From the article: “The staffers, all… Read More

Reading Time: 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, June 10: Understanding… Read More

Reading Time: min I’ve shared my distain for emails coming from “noreply” many times on this blog. My general feeling is that if a company wants to reach out to send me i… Read More

Reading Time: min I do a lot of things to try to remember the things that I read and watch. Using a book as an example, I might write some blog posts about it, maybe share it on a podcast… Read More

Reading Time: min As you may know, I’m writing on here every day to try to help myself. I share these learnings in the hope that they’re of benefit to you as well, but they&rsq… Read More

Reading Time: 2 min Of all of the things that Apple is known for, a major one is simplicity. It seems weird to say it, particularly when talking about complicated, powerful devices like iPh… Read More

Reading Time: 2 min One of the new apps that I’ve added to my morning routine is a very simple one called “LineByLine” (I say “app”, but I think it’s jus… Read More

Reading Time: min Understanding can be a powerful thing. Whether it means understanding people on the other side of the political aisle or just sonder in general, more understanding leads… Read More

Reading Time: 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, June 3: A Brave new br… Read More

Reading Time: 2 min When you ask someone what they’re grateful for, you often get the same kinds of things – health, family, friends, etc. Those are all wonderful things, and we… Read More

Reading Time: 2 min While Google is clearly still a huge and impactful company, it appears things are heading in the wrong direction. If that’s true, it’s easy to point to where… Read More

Reading Time: min In Daniel Kahneman’s famous book “Thinking, Fast and Slow“, he describes the two types of thinking that we can do: System 1 (fast) – The impuls… Read More

Reading Time: 2 min I’d heard about the Beeper app a while ago, but didn’t actually check it out until recently. I should have looked earlier, as it’s fantastic. Ve… Read More

Reading Time: min Years of experience can be beneficial, but it often depends on what was in those years. As I shared last year, experience isn’t the same as practice. For example, m… Read More

Reading Time: min As I’m slowly shedding the Google services in my life, I recently made a fairly big move and switched from Google Chrome to the Brave browser. If you’re wanti… Read More

Reading Time: 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, May 27: Make Mistakes… Read More

Reading Time: min I love being challenged by new ideas. I’ll certainly defend my point of view on any given subject, but I try to remain open to other possibilities. As Daniel Kahnem… Read More

Reading Time: 2 min There was recently a huge leak from Google that detailed much of how their search algorithm works, and it was quite eye opening. One of the best overviews of the leak co… Read More

Reading Time: 2 min I’ve shared my disdain for cold email many times on here, and a recent video that I watched help to prove my point. Similar to how I follow both sides of political… Read More

Reading Time: 2 min I recently read Jim Rohn’s classic book “7 Strategies for Wealth and Happiness“. As I’ve done with a few books lately, I had a brief discussion a… Read More

Reading Time: min I consider myself to be rather creative when it comes to solving problems, but not at all creative when it comes to art. So does that make me “creative” or no… Read More

Reading Time: min Making mistakes can be a fantastic way to learn, even if you sometimes make them intentionally. Given that they’re a way to learn, though, repeatedly making the sam… Read More

Reading Time: 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, May 20: GPT-4o is asto… Read More

Reading Time: min A trait of mine that I continue to work on is to let conversations breathe. I tend to jump in quickly to keep things moving along, to the extent of sometimes trying to fi… Read More

Reading Time: min In the last move of Google’s weird switch from “Universal Analytics” (“UA”, the Google Analytics that everyone has used for years) to &ldquo… Read More

Reading Time: min One of the biggest assets that many companies have is data on their customers. By collecting, storing, and using piles of data on their customers, they can often turn tha… Read More

Reading Time: min I’m finding Threads to be an excellent social media platform right now. It’s grown large enough to have great conversations, but not too large (yet) that it i… Read More

Reading Time: min One of the best things I’ve done over the past few years (though it’s still a work in progress) is to be more quiet during meetings. If I want to open my mout… Read More

Reading Time: 2 min It seems that every iteration of ChatGPT and similar technologies is amazing, and the new “GPT-4o” certainly continues that trend. If you’re not famili… Read More

Reading Time: 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, May 13: There’s… Read More

Reading Time: 2 min There are a lot of absolute truths in the world, but many are subjective. For example, I can 100% prove that Chick-Fil-A has the fastest drive-thru of all similar restau… Read More

Reading Time: 2 min People that work to grow their business generally fall into one of two camps: entrepreneurs and wantrepreneurs. Entrepreneurs work with their plan, and wantrepreneurs ju… Read More

Reading Time: 2 min When deciding what content to dig into (books, podcasts, etc), I’m often faced with an interesting decision: do I want to explore something new, or revisit an old… Read More

Reading Time: min As time goes on, I’m finding that people who are always striving to learn more tend to have more success in business. From my vantage point, it seems to cover two a… Read More

Reading Time: min People are often advised to “follow best practices”, and it’s not bad advice. Carefully following in the steps of those that have gone before us is a sa… Read More

Reading Time: 3 min For those of you over 40, you can likely still remember the “good old days” on the internet, back when people set up their own places to visit, rather than r… Read More

Reading Time: 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, May 6: The value of ha… Read More

Reading Time: min We’ve always heard about how bad “half-baked ideas” usually are, but every idea goes through that stage at some point. It certainly could be problematic… Read More

Reading Time: min There are many types of conversations that we can have with others, but one of my favorites is a “learning conversation”, as explained by Charles Duhigg in &l… Read More

Reading Time: min For most of us, we can look back at ourselves from 10 years ago and think “wow, I had no idea what I was doing”. It’s uncomfortable to appreciate, but i… Read More

Reading Time: 2 min Many stores offer special deals on “loss leaders” — products that are sold very cheap, often at a loss, in order to entice customers into the store to… Read More

Reading Time: min The word “value” gets discussed and dissected in business quite a bit, but what does it really mean? At the end of the day, it means whatever the customer wan… Read More

Reading Time: 2 min Over the past few years we’ve seen a slow decline in the value of having “followers” on social media, as the algorithms continue to shift to show conte… Read More

Reading Time: 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 29: “What… Read More

Reading Time: 2 min There are things in this world that we can and should choose to fight against — improving the climate, housing the homeless, and uncovering cures for various disea… Read More

Reading Time: 2 min “Be prepared” has been the motto of the Boy Scouts since 1907, and it’s good advice. Being prepared is rarely a bad idea and can help immensely when yo… Read More

Reading Time: 2 min Having a personal board of directors would be amazing. I’m on a few boards with other organizations, but it’d be neat to have my own — I could just hav… Read More

Reading Time: 2 min One thing that I love about having a relatively small team (it’s myself and Ali, and then seven others) that are full-time employees instead of contractors is the… Read More

Reading Time: 2 min I’m a big fan of summaries, as they can be a great way to get a lot of information in a short period of time. Blinkist creates fantastic summaries, and I certainly… Read More

Reading Time: 2 min I share a lot from Seth Godin on this blog and in emails to various people, but there is one of his posts that I share far more than others called “What is spam?&l… Read More

Reading Time: 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… Read More

Reading Time: 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 &l… Read More

Reading Time: 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 “hea… Read More

Reading Time: 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… Read More

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 tha… Read More

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 ga… Read More

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… Read More

Reading Time: 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… Read More

Reading Time: 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… Read More

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… Read More

Reading Time: 2 min As with most of you, I get hit with cold outreach all the time. Cold emails, phone calls, LinkedIn connections, people at our door, etc. While they may occasionally have… Read More