Personal Branding’s a bunch of bulls#!t! (But we’re going to need it, anyway.)
Smart professionals recoil at the phrase, but personal branding's going to play an important part of your career in the next decade.
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 […]
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. […]
An Hourglass and a Flower Pot
It’s the fall of 1987. There’s a new kid on the school bus. An Army brat, if I remember, or maybe the […]
Measuring your messaging’s real ROI
You’ve got “reach.” You’ve got “engagement.” You’ve even got “amplification.” But all the online media jargon in the world won’t help you […]
We broke the 10K hours threshold without breaking me.
Every year has been 2820 Press’ best year ever on just about every metric. However, the end of 2017 nearly broke me. […]
Getting louder in 2019.
On their Rework podcast, the Basecamp team expressed their desire to become a Facebook-Free Company. (DHH wrote an article about this on […]
Revisiting my favorite World Cafe sessions
It's been a year of reinvention for me. 2820 Press has been rolling along for six years now, and it's been a long time since I've had bandwidth to devote to personal projects. Maybe that's why I've been reflecting a lot lately on parts of my career that have been in the rear view mirror for a while.
Getting physical.
As we’ve been recruiting guests for season two of “The Build” I’ve found myself steering toward founders who share my bias for […]
Who cares about your stories when there’s already too much content?
If there’s already “too much content,” why even bother to write anything new? It turns out, the average lifespan of a blog […]
The Zero Stack Startup
Most of the founders I talk with on my podcast, The Build, didn’t start their companies with huge investors behind them. Sometimes, […]