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A street poet teaches a writer lessons through a poem about a unicorn.

We can't find a fitting metaphor for AI, which may be a sign of how transformative it will be.

AI is creating immense disruption and knowledge workers are carrying the freight.

5 principles for doing good work, fast.

Time in the saddle will make you better, but it's no substitute for experience.

Distractions aren't new, but technology amplifies them.

AI is creating a counter-intuitive competitive environment.

There are no advanced skills, only mastery and combination of the basics.

If...you make the work your end...you will be one of the sound craftsmen, and other sound craftsment will know it.

Fast is rare.

My unread text message count topped 200.

I applied to work at Raycast.

After 5 years at RudderStack, I'm joining Vercel

How I used Vercel's AI SDK and AI Gateway to build a model-selectable post summary feature for my blog

AI chat is ubiquitous, but it's not the interface of the future.

The primary beneficiaries of AI are knowledge workers with existing expertise, which will create an increasingly high barrier of entry for those jobs.

I migrated my 13-year-old WordPress blog to Next.js and Vercel using Cursor .

I work at a company that makes data pipelines and I like to tinker, so when I came across a deficiency in Garmin’s reporting, I decided to see if I could build a basic pipeline stack that would deliv...

We'll start with the big news: after several years of consulting, I joined a San Francisco-based startup called RudderStack[^1].

Being an entrepreneur with my hands in a variety of projects, I receive a fair amount of email.

'This is the second post in a series I’m writing on running a services business[^1].

'I'm writing a short series[^1] of posts about observations I've made after transitioning from running a more direct-to-consumer focused business to running a B2B services business.

'This is the fourth post in an ongoing series about the transition from maker to manager[^1].

I was recently invited to an event about digital marketing.

Over the past few weeks I’ve had conversations with a variety of people about the marketing/sales funnel, which I wrote about recently[^1].

A few weeks ago I gave a talk explaining some of the lessons I’d learned about marketing as I helped grow The Iron Yard.

286 days have passed between the last post I published and this one, which is quite a long while as far as I'm concerned.

Recently, while working through a list of agenda items with several people on my team, I noticed a new feature in Google Docs: recognition of what is likely an action time and a suggestion to create a...

'This is the seventeenth post in a series on productivity[^1].

2016 has certainly been a surprising political year for many people.

Since writing about varying opinions on social media and ownership of online content, I’ve been musing about ‘online presence’ as a concept in general.

Since writing about varying opinions on social media and ownership of online content, I’ve been musing about ‘online presence’ as a concept in general.

Since writing about varying opinions on social media and ownership of online content, I’ve been musing about ‘online presence’ as a concept in general.

During a stage of significant growth at The Iron Yard, several executives had a conversation about how to quell what had become the insanity of our heavy travel and meeting schedules.

Did you know 72 percent of people globally believe that connected home devices offer hackers new ways to steal data?

I wrote recently about thoughts that have been swirling in my head about data and privacy in the world we live in today[^1].

'This is the sixteenth post in a series on productivity[^1].

'This is the fifteenth post in a series on productivity[^1].

I don't often post personal life updates, but I thought that producing offspring was a noteworthy event.You can read more details (and check out lots of pictures) on a separate blog I set up[^1], but...

It's been quite a while since I picked up my camera.

This upcoming week is a big one for me and my wife: we will welcome our first child into the world.

Headlines about big data and algorithms as the infrastructure for modern companies seem commonplace in a world being eaten by software.

Over the last few weeks I've been culling through a gigantic pile of links, articles and ideas that I've saved up for this blog.

Being asked if you want cash back at a grocery store or convenience store is one of those experiences you don't really question—it's just part of the normal shopping experience at many places.

Several months ago I took a test measuring personality and work behaviors.

The United States Postal Service is one of the largest civilian employers in the country[^1], but has been plagued with financial struggles, making news headlines several times over in the last decade...

'Management is a topic that draws no shortage of opinions, studies or differing experiences.

Some time ago I signed up for an online course about user growth.