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“Blogging isn’t about publishing as much as you can. It’s about publishing as smart as you can.”
John Morrow
Form Follows Function – Doesn’t It?
When I pressed a client recently to provide me with the content for her new website, she confessed to having trouble producing it. "Why don't you show me some designs," she asked, "and maybe that will help me write the content." Alarms sounded in my head. Imagine this...
Jason Ludwig – Someone You Should Know
Jason Ludwig sells cars. But he's no ordinary car salesman. When he invited my wife and I into his office to begin the excruciating game of "offer, counter offer, let me talk to my manager and see what we can do, what will it take to put you behind the wheel of this...
Paradise – A Nice Place to Visit But I Wouldn’t Want to Live There
Somewhere around day 2 of a recently ended 7 day vacation on the Caribbean island paradise of St. Maarten (St. Martin if you're on the French side), the question started. It was a whisper at first. But around day 4 the volume and frequency had increased. The question...
You Can Handle The Truth!
I am learning to accept the truth regardless of its source. It's hard. After all, the truth, as we've heard too many times, hurts. But how could it? Why should it? Here's what I think. It's not the truth that hurts at all but rather the manner in which it's first...
Stuff – How Much is Enough?
I've always believed that less is more. It's a worldview that informs a lot of what I do. In music, fewer notes almost always works better for me than lots of notes. In writing, concise is better than verbose. In web design, white space is better than gratuitous...
McCartney Turns 70 – What it Means to Me
I was 15 years old when I saw this rendering of the Beatles as old men for the first time.* For me the concept of aging was unfathomable. In my world, everyone was young and everyone would always be young. But most of all, The Beatles, our idols and mentors, prophets...