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January 05, 02021 For Posterity For future generations. December 30, 02020 Proper ATOM feed Formatting Tips to generate a good feed. December 19, 02020 Less Wrong A compendium of Less Wrong. December 19, 02020 Average Day What my average day looks like across the years. December 14, 02020 Turning 20 It’s strange to look back on 19 years and even stranger to look forward. December 09, 02020 Sideloading iPhone 5 on iOS 10.3.4 I am explaining this for my future self, who is intelligent and interested, but has forgotten. December 08, 02020 Learning Integrity The best experiences I’ve had were all learning experiences—not educational ones. December 03, 02020 zero through nineteen As of writing, I have less than two weeks until I turn 20. November 26, 02020 AI Writing For Marketing This is the script for my Developing Technologies in Business Video for BUS 284. November 12, 02020 Typical Mind Fallacy I’ve begun to see a common error in myself. 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October 01, 02020 Managing a remote team How to manage and work with a remote team. September 21, 02020 SEO Tool Buying Guide The endless supply of tools leaves many beginners and experts wondering the same thing. What tool should I use? September 21, 02020 Tools should turn us into experts Tools shape our learning, processes, and mental models. September 21, 02020 The SEO SaaS Gap Every SEO tool is about data to move forward. September 18, 02020 Perception Optimization Optimizing the value of what you've created for a specific audience. September 17, 02020 What makes a good delivery of bad news? This was a post created for a University Discussion. September 16, 02020 Most favorited Hacker News posts of all time The most favorited articles by the top 10k most active Hacker News members. September 05, 02020 Pain and growth Search for those moments. September 02, 02020 Sticking your neck out On business and classes. September 01, 02020 First Day of Class 2020 The joys and struggle of online class. August 18, 02020 Marketing Differentiation The mess of differentiation. August 10, 02020 Industry Icons Icons for design, development, and marketing. August 09, 02020 Write about stuff that interests you Goals moving forward and telling us what we need to know. August 08, 02020 Degreeless.marketing Dev log How I built Degreeless.marketing. August 05, 02020 Degreeless.marketing You don’t need a degree to make change happen. August 02, 02020 Brand, Content, and Reach The following is a framework I’ve developed and modeled from trying to find a complete stance on business needs. July 28, 02020 Degreeless This is my working document on the idea of degreeless. July 28, 02020 Student Employment How can we give the next generation every opportunity we can to solve problems? July 27, 02020 Question, Connect, and Understand Real value comes from the questions you ask, the connections you make, and how well you help people feel understood. July 22, 02020 Marketing and Positioning A riff on marketing and positioning July 20, 02020 Notes from MozCon 2020 My notes from MozCon 2020. July 20, 02020 Catalina and Ruby Running Jekyll on macOS Catalina July 19, 02020 Updating a 2012 MacBook Pro I recently picked up a 2012 13” MacBook Pro from a coworker. Why, would I take a 2012 MacBook Pro when I already own a 15” 2018 MacBook Pro? July 18, 02020 Effective Masks General statements mean a lot of different things and often apply to a lot of people or items. Often statements are vague or not specific. July 18, 02020 Mask Oversimplification On being American. July 14, 02020 Thoughts on College Originally written on April 13th. July 09, 02020 2020 U.S. Presidential Website Teardown Comparing the 2020 Presidential Candidate Websites. July 02, 02020 Metrics on the Top 100 Most Visited Sites Looking for how your site stacks up against the top 100? June 21, 02020 Chrome Extensions A list of useful Chrome Extensions. June 19, 02020 Notes from Heroic Leadership Real leaders—real heroes—find fulfillment, meaning, and even success by shifting their gaze beyond self-interest and serving others. June 17, 02020 20 things you don’t know about SEO Build something worth searching for. June 12, 02020 What every business should know about digital marketing SEO, PPC, Brand, What do you need? May 29, 02020 The big problem with business Why don't people choose you? May 28, 02020 Commercial and Klim Type Fonts for free with macOS Apple has licensed fonts Commercial Type, Klim Type Foundry, and Mark Simonson Studio for new system fonts on Mac OS Catalina. 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April 24, 02020 Creating RSS feeds and Automating a Newsletter How I built RSS feeds and automated my newsletter April 23, 02020 MacOS font bug in Chrome Chrome 81 breaks the ability to bold system fonts on Macs April 21, 02020 Money Desires If you want to make more money there are a few things you can do. April 18, 02020 About this website How I built this site and what runs it. April 17, 02020 Everything I Know About Email From code to vision. April 17, 02020 Creation and Consumption Distinguish that from which is artificial, forced, or remote from actual experience. February 26, 02020 Redesign Good design is as little design as possible. February 05, 02020 Mental Models and Principles A few of my personal mental models and principles. February 01, 02020 Feedback Loops How do you get better at something? What makes AI so valuable? January 28, 02020 2020 Presidential Candidate Font Comparison In a race over donations from a nation how do the players compare? January 11, 02020 2020 Presidential Candidate Donate Form Comparison In a race over donations from a nation how do the players compare? January 11, 02020 2020 Presidential Candidate Website Comparison In a race over power of a nation how do the players compare? January 10, 02020 A Timeline of Inventions A list of some human miracles over the centuries. January 07, 02020 Anatomy of Performing Content A nice reminder that the longer the better, headlines are important, building links requires effort, and people love lists. January 06, 02020 Work in 2019 A few of the creative projects I worked on in 2019. December 31, 02019 Website Plans As with most things digital there are near infinite ways of creating a website. Generally there... December 19, 02019 Learning is like baking Learning is like baking. You find recipes and follow the given format. You try many recipes... November 12, 02019 Making a book list Learning how to make a book list with Jekyll. October 19, 02019 Psychology and Persuasion Key ways people can be influenced. September 30, 02019 Lessons in creativity. The First Year Integrated Core at Miami University focuses on thinking critically, creatively and conceptually. ESP... September 26, 02019 Down to the detail. What makes an expert? What level of detail do you need to be aware of to... September 25, 02019 Choosing to settle We're always reaching for things we don't need. September 24, 02019 Ideas need an axis to be tested against. When we argue about ‘better’ most likely, we’re not having the same conversation. We need to... September 23, 02019 Starting up a site: What’s it for? It’s personal. I want to make a group of my own culture. I wanted to build... September 21, 02019 Migrating from Squarespace to GitHub And saving $152 a year on hosting fees. July 03, 02019 New Thinking Society A thought experiment from my senior year in High School. April 05, 02019 Askhole That's a nice social boundary you've got there. 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