A bi-weekly roundup of eerily similar performance reviews February 22 - March 7 Where Do You Fall On The Tech Bell Curve? There's a bell curve in terms of technology adoption: Innovators Early Adopters Early Majority Late Majority Laggards This curve doesn't only represent whether someone uses a technology or not, but also how they use it. When computers first launched there was a bell curve in terms of who knew they existed, then a bell curve of who had a home PC, then a bell curve of people...
27 days ago • 5 min read
A bi-weekly roundup of cruciferous life lessons February 8 - February 21 Balance Your Plate With Entrepreneurial Antioxidants For better or worse, I'm a boundary man. I've done enough self-reflection (including using AI) to know that I feel the most comfortable when I know where boundaries lie, the freedom within them, and the consequences for stepping over them. Like many people, I enjoy control and dislike not having it. When I started my business, one of the first things I did was lay out...
about 1 month ago • 3 min read
A bi-weekly roundup of holy problems and divine solutions January 25 - February 7 The First Commandment: Thou Shalt Solve Sometimes I wonder if I should start a religion about solving problems. I would call it "Entrepreneurship" and our church would be our beds at 2am, praying to the almighty Cash Flow to save us from the sins of... ...ourselves. Time and time again, I talk to new business owners, agency leaders, and Japanese entrepreneurship students that have fallen in love with their own...
about 2 months ago • 3 min read
A bi-weekly roundup of ways to disagree with your colleagues, gracefully January 11 - January 24 Image courtesty BiteSize Learning Step Confidently Into Conflict I finished delivering two weeks of performance management training and the concept that grabbed my learners the most was the Thomas-Kilmann Conflict Model. It was 2/3rds of the way through the day, post-lunch, so it should have been the most sleepy topic...but everyone perked up and started asking really good questions. What's the...
2 months ago • 4 min read
A bi-weekly analysis of hobbies that may someday make millions December 28 - January 10 How To Create An AI Agent, Today! Last fall at Hubspot's INBOUND conference, Hubspot's Founder and CTO Dharmesh Shah unveiled his pet project: Agent.ai. I signed up immediately. My opinion is that when a successful tech person who founds a multi-billion dollar tech company shares free signups to their new tech pet project, you should sign up immediately. Anyone's hobby that's on the bleeding edge of tech...
3 months ago • 6 min read
A bi-weekly roundup of EOY fears December 14 - December 27 Wrap Up The Old Year With Your Fears In the last TL;DR, I asked whether you set New Years Resolutions and got an amazing 50/50 split: I'm fascinated by the intersection of goals and fears and not many people do fear better than Tim Ferriss. You may know him from his "4-hour Workweek/Body/Chef/etc." empire of self-help content. If you're in the entrepreneurial world, it's hard to miss him: he's got his marketing and branding on lock...
3 months ago • 3 min read
A bi-weekly roundup of ways to rethink 2025 November 30 - December 13 (SO SPOOKY) Fresh Starts They Are A Comin' Most people seem to fall into two camps regarding New Years Resolutions They embrace January 1st with SMART goals and hope They actively ignore the New Years Resolution hype and say, "I'm not a resolution kind of person" I'm trying out something new here: I'd like to see YOUR vote in the poll! You'll see the poll results immediately after submitting your answer. Do you tend to set...
4 months ago • 3 min read
More How, Less Hype Hi Reader, If you haven't been living under a rock for the past few years, your inboxes, feeds, and networking events are filled with people breathlessly talking about the potential of AI. Pilots. Proof of concepts. It's all about Potential. Instead of more hype, we're going to show you every place we use AI in our Small Agency Assessment (currently on a Black Friday special), why we're using it, and how we compensate for its shortcomings. 1. Call Analysis We use Fathom...
4 months ago • 2 min read
A bi-weekly roundup of Opportunities November 16 - November 29 Opportunity Knocks for Opportunity Marketing Hi Reader, Let me tell you about Gerald Osprey and his agency, Opportunity Marketing. Gerald started his marketing agency about six years ago after being laid off. For those early years, he tapped his network to do all kinds of work: SEO, content writing, some paid media advising. After the first two years, Gerald was booking about $100K in annual recurring revenue (ARR). In year three,...
4 months ago • 4 min read