Month: August 2018
Freelance Friday 019 – August 17 2018
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This week has been mostly off for me. Monday was taking my middle kid in to the hospital for further tests and such for her GI issues. More tests are scheduled. Tuesday through Thursday my wife worked a bunch and since it was one week in the summer we decided that I’d just take the…
Laptopless @macsparky
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So David is doing another experiment with no laptop. I’ve mostly gone Macless now. Web development with my iPad and a VPS. Audio recording and editing on the iPad. Next week I’ll talk more about why I think that traditional desktop UI is less productive and why iOS is better. Few weeks you’ll get a…
Should I Read It 028 – Story Driven by Bernadette Jiwa
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Story Driven by Bernadette Jiwa is all about helping you tell your unique story in a way that stays true to who you are. Purchase Story Driven on Amazon Written review of Story Driven by Bernadette Jiwa If you’ve been struggling with focus, then my next book The Art of Focus is for you. In…
How do you build a Story Driven Company?
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A few weeks back we looked at how to have a brand that stands out, one that has no competition because it’s just different than the rest. While there was lots of good in Badass Your Brand, it felt like it was lacking to me in some of the “how” metrics. How do you communicate…
Do You Schedule Time for Social Media?
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I encountered this question in a Slack channel recently: Do you schedule time for social media? The short answer is no, I don’t schedule time for social media. social media is so much more noise than marketing now social media is not good creative work social media sucks your time away from stuff you should…
Take Your Customer Service from Average to Awesome
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If you run a business, then you should know by now that customer service is one of the most – if not the most – important area to focus on. Let’s face it, if it wasn’t for the customers, you wouldn’t even exist as a business because no one would be buying from you, and all…
App addiction?
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Instagram is a photo sharing app that has over 800 million users. Its users can take a snapshot using the app camera and share it with their followers. What makes Instagram so addictive is that the app itself also has a number of filters that the users can apply to their images to make them…
You need support at home
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For you to achieve extraordinary results, the people surrounding you and your physical surroundings must support your goals. – The ONE Thing According to Shawn Achor, in The Happiness Advantage, the biggest predictor of success through hard times is the support you have around you. Achor was looking at the workplace and hard projects, but…
It’s not the algorithms that need fixing, it’s us taking control back
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So so much this from Cal Newport: We don’t need to convince YouTube to artificially constrain the effectiveness of its AutoPlay algorithm, we should instead convince users of the life-draining inanity of idly browsing YouTube. When we just let the algorithms take over for us we give away so much of our responsibility. We get…
Freelance Friday 018 – August 10 2018
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This was a busy week. I got edits in from my launch team for The Art of Focus. I started laying out the book and getting it set for print. I should have the print proof late next week. We’re totally on track to get this thing launched well. Don’t forget to keep an eye…
