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Consulting can be easy money. Fleecing clients for cheap tricks. Clients have problems, you have powerpoints. It’s easy to flip a few quick slides into a chunk of cash and cackle off into the mountains.
a year ago

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Taking Blogging Seriously

It’s a warm summer night in NYC and I’m walking through central park with a friend, the fireflies blink around us like an external reflection of the neurons firing in our brains as the conversation sparks.

2 weeks ago 16 votes
Google is Grounded and Needs to Learn How to Soar

Here’s the punchline - I think Google is missing the mark with their AI search efforts. In this post I have a concrete proposal and a prototype you can try yourself that shows a different approach for the future of search. An approach that’s better for users and in a way that’s beneficial to the open web at the same time.

3 months ago 24 votes
3,573 Days On The Road

Every year on the 24th October I've written a reflection on the last year of my independent consulting. This would have been my 10th issue, but is instead a special issue, for reasons that will become apparent.

10 months ago 86 votes
LinkedIn is not a social or professional network, it's a learning network

The world of work is changing.

a year ago 120 votes

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Developing countries: A follow-up

Checking in on some countries I wrote about a few years back.

yesterday 4 votes
Encore Anxiety

Fear of disappointing people you've already impressed is more paralyzing than fear of impressing nobody at all.

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Mark Zuckerberg: Facebook's strategy tax

Zuckerberg on rebranding Facebook, spinning off Instagram, antitrust regulation, and more.

2 days ago 8 votes
Why tariffs haven't raised inflation much (yet)

Three possible explanations.

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