Insights on marketing, branding, and developing tomorrow's talent.
Protecting deep work time while maintaining team accessibility and responsiveness
Why "make the logo bigger" requests happen and how to have more productive creative conversations
How over-complicated brand standards can paralyze teams instead of empowering them
Finding the balance between data-driven decisions and trusting human intuition about community needs
Why most content calendars become abandoned spreadsheets, and simple systems that actually get used
How thinking about digital touchpoints as hospitality rather than conversion can improve both user experience and results
How 10 minutes of preparation can turn hour-long meetings into 20-minute decisions
Systems for knowledge transfer that don't require your best people to stop doing their best work
Templates and checklists for transferring projects between team members without losing crucial context
A simple checklist for identifying the three things that are probably confusing your website visitors right now
Rediscovering the lost art of actual conversations in a world of digital-first everything
How to do the work of five people without losing your sanity (or your sense of humor)
How to use technology to enhance human connection, not replace it
How to build meaningful connections without becoming a human golden retriever
Just because you're collecting everything doesn't mean you know anything.
Sometimes the best solutions come from the worst circumstances.
A survival guide for navigating the alphabet soup of modern marketing
When everyone's telling a story, how do you tell one people actually believe?
Great marketing doesn't just sell products—it builds better communities.
Sometimes the most important conversations are the ones about what we already know.
Why the marketing industry's best ideas might be coming from people who still remember what a floppy disk is—but have never actually used one.
Exhausted professional discovers that both raising children and managing developers require the same impossible balance of authority and friendship, with slightly different tantrums.
Parent discovers AI can explain awkward topics without blushing, promptly outsources all difficult conversations to robots while hiding in kitchen stress-eating cookies.
High school transfer student discovers that shooting yourself in the head is an effective extracurricular activity, manages school-life balance by fighting monsters at midnight while still maintaining perfect exam scores.
Local developer finds perfect API, documentation turns out to be from 2019, chaos ensues in a tale of romance, betrayal, and deprecated endpoints.
Tired project manager discovers managing developers is like running a cat sanctuary where all the cats know Python and have strong opinions about semicolons.
Office worker discovers that 'work-life balance' means your cat is now your most demanding coworker and your commute is tripping over toys to reach your laptop.
Gamer discovers $70 wireless controller has secret 'ghost mode' feature where characters continue their journey without player input, proving Sony's commitment to AI advancement at the expense of your fun.
Ambitious professional discovers that climbing career advice ladders is like eating at a buffet – take what you want, leave what makes you queasy, and ignore anyone who judges your plate.
Professional successfully manages multi-million dollar projects at work, can't figure out how to schedule dentist appointment that's been overdue for 8 months.
Productivity expert finally writes guide to beating procrastination, three weeks past deadline, after organizing entire sock drawer and becoming surprisingly knowledgeable about traditional Mongolian throat singing.
Sales consultant reveals language patterns that turn 'absolutely not' into 'where do I sign?' while reader wonders if they're learning persuasion techniques or being actively persuaded to believe they're learning persuasion techniques.