Chase Raz
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Chase Raz is a Professor and Consultant who is currently working on ideating, incubating, and scaling his own businesses ventures.
Somewhere along the way, many marketers and web designers (and even some developers) began thinking that WordPress running almost half of all websites and somewhere between 60 to 80 percent of all CMS sites made it a good platform. Let's be clear: good and most used are not always synonymous. Frankly, WordPress is pretty good as...
As marketers, we found ourselves (for decades now!) trying to keep up with trends, learning the newest platforms, and trying to reach our targets everywhere we could. It may seem heretical, but in this post, I advocate for deplatforming as a way to increase you are following an engagement.
Today, my first album in 6 years goes live. In 2018, I released an environmental and ambient music experiment under the name, Onjin Projekt. It was a story-full background music album that could best be described as an imaginative soundscape, mostly science-fiction. There are songs, if you can call them that, such as “Challenger to Warp” which imagines what a trip might sound like from within a warp-enabled spacecraft to “Cosmic Lounge” that provides the atmosphere of a futuristic diner on a
What is topical in the news as I write this will be but a vague memory, if remembered at all, by the time you read it. Recently, a cybersecurity firm pushed a software update and crashed millions (8.5 million, according to Microsoft) of business computers worldwide. Flights were interrupted creating massive delays, guests were locked out of their rooms at Disneyland, and those self-checkout kiosks everyone both loves-to-hate and hates-to-love were down and unable to accept card payments.
I have been Swedish Death Cleaning for years, and I still consider myself to have an average amount of stuff. Well, I still have more belongings than most because I tend to squirrel was items for household chores and personal hobbies. All of that stashing away of goods adds up to a lot of items.
Welcome to my blog, I’m Chase Raz. This is a place for thinking and a place for understanding. The topics here will range from my professional pursuits of business, technology, and marketing to my passions for science and futurism. I welcome each of you who land on these pages, either through intent or happenstance.
Okay, I’m not here to be negative, but I need you to know something: podcast and blog sponsorships are often fake. No, the other podcast with only 20% more listeners isn’t really pulling in the amazing sponsors they say they are. Are they lying? Not really. See, most of the sponsorships for podcasts and blogs […]
There’s no shortage of thing for me to do in the day. If I could make two clones of myself, all three of us would end up with full time jobs from my existing workload. It’s not that I’m bad at time management or that I’m slow an inefficient, instead, it’s that I’m interested in […]
Nope, nothing’s perfect. The platform powering my stack right now isn’t ideal, especially here at chaseraz.com where I’m using WordPress. I could tell you that I have plans to just move everything over to Webflow, but really who knows… my thinking could change on that in a few months and we’d be right back in […]
For years, I've had difficulty with platform selections for most of my core mission-critical tasks in business. I've belabored website builders, financial software, design software, digital document tools... you name it. I recently posted that I was finishing a current platform stack to be used on an indefinite basis. It felt great and I made major progress. But after having to walk away to address a teaching project, I found myself very unhappy with a number of the decisions I had made. Not
