Recent Posts
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Launch When It’s Better
How do you, as a non-development leader, know when you should go ahead and launch something that may not feel "there," yet? Simple. You launch when it’s better than what you have.
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What I Learned About Hustle While Training For a 15k
I’d like to think I learned a lot about hustling from The Roots and Jon Acuff (in different ways), but I hadn't really internalized the hustle until I signed up for my first 15k.
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Trellololo
I’ve gotten a lot of questions about “my system” since my wife Instagrammed a shot of my Trello board a few weeks ago. How do I actually use Trello? Basically, I’ve built a huge funnel out of my board that goes from big, year-sized projects down to small, day-sized bites.
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Fear & Failure in Dallas
A writer I follow, Yuvi Zalkow, is promoting his book this week, and he issued a challenge of sorts for other writers and creators to share their stories of fear and failure as he girds himself for the reviews and sales figures.
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TYPO3, Quebec, and July 4th
A couple weeks ago, I got to attend the TYPO3 conference in Quebec, and I’ve been so engrossed in PHP and design comps since I got back that I’m just now thinking about some of the highlights.
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Start small.
We have no big names, no outside funding, no award-winning website, and I’m the only employee. Our rallying cry: start small.
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Not a Manifesto
While working on building a new business, Craft+Story, I decided to pen some core values to kick things off and find the right people.
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Steve.
The growth of Apple was a shared experience for all of us. My parents were inspired to write, draw, and create music on devices that didn’t quite seem like computers to them. I was inspired to write, draw, and create music by watching them.
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How to Not Make Bad Propaganda
I have two wildly different writing processes that I switch between for different goals, audiences, etc. Obviously, I opt to justify, and I’ll give each process a descriptive, if hyperbolic, name: the “market-y, sell, sell” process and the “painfully honest” process.
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My Writing Process
I documented my writing and creative process for “cross-training” at work.