Everyone has a code, whether it’s well-defined or not. I do my best to live deliberately, to lead an examined life, and sometimes that means I have to stop and take stock
Make A Plan For Your Day Before You Start It
Far too often, I begin my day by walking into my office, sitting down, signing in, and jumping straight into the fray. I need the reminder (read the quote and
Why Does Your Content Have A Gatekeeper?
Why do news websites like NYTimes.com, FinancialTimes.com, and ESPN.com continue posting articles on social media that require you to be a subscriber to view the entire article? A recent exchange
Discovering Your True North, Your Primary Purpose
It sounds so official, I know. But if you intend to live a life examined, it’s probably a good place to start. If you don’t intend to do so, please
How To Find The Right Talent For Your Team
For years, I have relied on the various and sundry job boards to supply quality creative candidates. Whether it’s Krop.com, Coroflot, Behance, AIGA, Dribbble, AuthenticJobs, or any of the other competitive and viable job listing
Build Space For Your Creative Process
When my co-workers try to schedule meetings with me or my team in the morning, they nearly always find it impossible. Given that I run a small, internal creative agency
Social Media Must Be Human to Work
The Harvard Business Review just ran a piece by Umair Haque called “The Social Media Bubble” in which Haque likens growing social media buzz to the subprime trading that put our
Is Social Media the Front Lines of Customer Service?
Last week, a few days before heading out of town to South By Southwest in Austin, I ordered a box of Kodak’s (relatively) new handheld HD cameras, the Zi8. When
After a Twelve Year Arch, It All Comes Full Circle
When I graduated from college in 1997, I had a degree in Ecological Anthropology and Writing under one arm, and a driving passion to jump headlong into the publishing game.
Twitter, Please Stop Asking People What They’re Doing
Maybe I use Twitter differently than its intended purpose. I try to use Twitter as both a mass communication tool and also as a source of nearly instant conversion and
Epic Change – Building a Locally-Led School in Tanzania
Drop what you are doing right now, for about 3 minutes, and you can help build a technology lab for a locally-led primary school in Tanzania. All you have to
Are You Doing What You Love, Right Now?
I fell into my career in design by circumstance and fortune, and certainly had no great plans to be doing what I’m doing now when it all started. My education
You Can’t Ever Have Too Much of a Good Thing
This should be subtitled: “Even when that good thing really, really pisses you off to begin with.” Yesterday was a bit of a rough day for me. Towards the end
Changing Lives: What Are We Doing Today?
If there’s one thing that has become clear to me, it’s that the world can use as many people as possible linking arm in arm to fight against social and
The Best Ever Failed 63% of the Time
Ty Cobb failed 63.4% of the time, finishing his career with a .366 lifetime batting average. The ultimate benchmark for greatness for a hitter is the .400 mark, and that
Crowdsourcing Is Poison to the Design Community
Pawning sites like Crowdspring, Bootb.com, GeniusRocket, Worth1000.com and 99designs off as “crowdsourcing design networks” is covering the wolf in sheep’s clothing. It’s one thing to run a design contest online
Set Your Clients Up to Succeed
Every service provider, regardless of their discipline, has at one point or another performed great service for a client only to have them call back a month later saying something
The Self-Proclaimed Expert
“If stock market experts were so expert, they would be buying stock, not selling advice.“ – Norman R. Augustine So-called experts are quickly flooding the relatively new social media niche
To Friend Or to Follow
The connective branches of the web are spreading out at an ever-increasing rate. Have you noticed how many of your old friends from high school and college are showing up
What Did You Want To Be When You Growed Up?
Are you doing what you thought you’d be doing with your life? Are you happy with where you’re at? Do you have any regrets about the decisions that you’ve made?
