Every time I picked up the phone, I put another paperclip into the jar on my desk. I was playing a simple game with my work, to make it more entertaining (and achievable). The list in front of me had 10 names and phone numbers. Every time I dialled a number, I put a [...]
Work without will or wonder is just drudgery. Play is an overlap of work, will, and wonder, and it transforms how we participate in the act of working.Bringing play into your work increases your capacity to do work well. Think of the seven dwarves, toiling in the mines; they knew to whistle while you work. Play makes [...]
Selling asynchronously is something you can do on a sales page. When you pitch someone across the counter in a showroom, you are selling synchronously. You can respond to objections as they come up, and modify your communication to suit the moment. Selling on the Internet is mostly asynchronous. You craft your messaging, field [...]
I've been day trading for a few months now, with a small pool of crypto, and I've learned a few things. First up - Disclaimer: this is not financial advice, DYOR, wipe your own nose. I'm just a dude on the internet, sharing what I've learned. Second - big thanks to @CryptoCred for his [...]
While I hoped to have my upcoming book Marketing Yourself ready by the end of this year, it won't happen. I've already gone through 5 drafts, and I've been working on it for at least 3 years. At least the book cover is done: If you do any sort of writing, you know the [...]
I don't want to be a cryptobro, but I might become one. For ten years, I've worked in digital marketing, so I'm sensitive to the hype-heavy marketing-bro archetype that gives my profession a bad name. I have avoided publicly championing cryptocurrency, because of a similar disdain held for the loud and shallow leaders in [...]
The Huntress Clan completed our 11th move in 11 years on Samhain, which is April 30 in the Southern Hemisphere. We have bounced from country to country for a decade, going from town to town, looking for a place we might call home. With this latest transition, we may have found it. Many of [...]
Before I learned how to manage my tasks, my time, and my priorities, my desk was a huge pile of junk. I had long to-do lists that were never getting done. I was so overwhelmed by everything I had to do, I felt like I was drowning in obligations. Then someone threw me a [...]
There comes a time in the writing of every book when the author and the book don’t get along. I’ve been writing Marketing Yourself on and off for a few years. We have an on-again, off-again relationship, until I got committed last year and decided to see this through. Like any relationship, we’ve hit [...]
The new Gutenberg editor is the future of WordPress. I've decided to take Gutenberg for a spin in advance of the core update. Since WordPress website design is the foundation of my business, I'm always testing the latest tools and upgrades in advance, for two reasons: a) I want to make sure it doesn't break [...]