Business
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A collection of toy building blocks. You’ve already asked yourself this question a dozen times. Build a house or buy an existing? Build a raised garden bed or buy a kit? Print your own vacation t-shirts, or order them online? For someone with just enough development skill to be dangerous, the question is often the […]
You could say that I have a problem with staying on-point and on-message. In the early days of social web-based technologies, this varied focus was a trademark of thought-leaders and influential early adopters. When the masses came around to the adoption of a more social web, it was mistakenly viewed as taunting or troll-like behavior. […]
Remember being young and idealistic and thinking deadlines were stupid? Somehow, I’ve come back around to that position. Sure, there are times when deadlines are necessary or simply unavoidable. The pace of the world needs to keep moving forward and sometimes there’s just not an unlimited amount of time to otherwise accomplish tasks we’d rather […]
A couple of weeks back, I went to a theme park that I love. It’s not just a local theme park that I visited frequently as a kid, but it’s also where I started the marketing portion of my career. Marketing has been one of the three pillars of my professional identity, along with business […]
There’s little doubt that you’ve heard a lot about deep work, or being “in the zone”, or working in a state of flow. Conversations around this topic are almost always positive; extolling the virtues of deep work and the creativity and productivity breakthroughs that will occur. However, what isn’t talked about enough are the negative […]
The Forgotten 2023 Recession Will Never End… …at least not anytime soon. Recession Looming The conversation of a looming recession keeps getting stronger despite apparently falling away from the average consumer’s consciousness. It’s hard to blame these average consumers because their peers are spending mightily and unemployment is somewhat curiously falling. Those are normally excellent […]
I’ve been trying out some of Microsoft’s newest tools this weekend: Microsoft Loop, Microsoft Designer, and Microsoft Whiteboard, although it isn’t as new as the others. In this article, I’ll present simple introductions on these three tools and share my viewpoints on how each would be best managed from their internal product or brand management. […]
