The Syllabus 2020: The War of Art
I already believed in Steven Pressfield’s definition of “resistance.” 2020 just put it to the test. At the core of The War […]
Search & Replace Episode S01E02: Nick Darlington
South African writer and business consultant Nick Darlington tells us about the Pomodoro Technique, named for a tomato-shaped kitchen timer.
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 […]
Search & Replace Episode S01E01: Melissa Alam
Melissa Alam took the extreme step of removing email from her phone entirely. However, she tells us getting more productive time during her workday wasn’t her original goal.
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Essential Small Business Management Tools
Update (5/4/2022): Since I first wrote this post and granted this podcast interview, some major changes happened at Basecamp that caused me […]
The Syllabus 2020: The Brand You 50
Tom Peters made bold predictions about the future of work in 1999. Here's why I still recommend this powerful (but tiny) book on building a personal brand.
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.