I already believed in Steven Pressfield's definition of "resistance." 2020 just put it to the test. At the core of The War of Art lies the notion that we all resist the work we need to do to "turn …
Search and Replace
Our Podcast Taxi team worked hard all summer, so our first original podcast series, “Search and Replace” could launch as planned this morning. Every episode covers a single decision our guests made …
After 20 years of UX work, I finally got my stinkin’ badge.
The first time I held a copy of Designing Web Usability in my hands, it was 2000. I had launched spinme.com in 1997 as a daily newsletter with my best friend, and nobody had invented the word …
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Mellow Yellow
When I worked at World Cafe, we spent an afternoon recording a session with Donovan. He's one of the genuinely nicest guys I've ever met. I'd never have believed he'd become such an important part …
In memoriam: Joe Taylor Sr. 1945-2020
My dad loved cars, music, and his family. One of six siblings growing up in West Philadelphia (and, later, East Lansdowne), every story he told about his childhood always involved …
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Silence is violence.
Mine isn't the voice anyone needs to hear right now about the systemic racism that keeps tearing our nation apart. Yet, as I often tell my clients, silence is acceptance. Today, we now have to …
Why I still love Basecamp after fifteen years
Tara and Shannon from the excellent What Works podcast (and from the What Works Network, of which I've been a member for years) rounded up a crew of folks to talk about their favorite project …
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The Syllabus 2020: The Brand You 50
For the first 12 weeks of the new year, I’m highlighting what I’ve been calling The Syllabus: a dozen books that have positively improved my life and my career. I often recommend them to clients and …
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Personal Branding’s a bunch of bulls#!t! (But we’re going to need it, anyway.)
A few weeks ago, a friend of mine and I got into a debate over personal branding. We argued whether the notion of a “personal brand” seems like anything a true professional should need or want. For …
How I’m using Facebook these days
Earlier in the year, I wrote about getting louder and how I hadn’t really been active on Facebook very much in the past few years. Even though I was one of the platform’s earliest …
Introducing Podcast Taxi
It was just a matter of time. For years, I've been recommending podcasts, audiobooks, and other personal audio recordings as a pillar of a successful content marketing strategy. In a media …
Beautiful evening. You can almost see the stars!
Jay Frank gave a toast when Lori Taylor and I got married that might have been as long as the actual ceremony. And though I teased him about it in the years since, I never doubted his …
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