newsletters
Do experts keep cleaning you?
Have you ever been mysteriously unsubscribed from an email newsletter? It happens to me all the time. But I expect it. In fact, it’s how I can tell which “experts” are really beginners. I subscribe to a lot of newsletters and I use RSS to read long-form newsletters,
CJ’s Newsletter: 200 Abnormally Useful Ideas
Over in the VIP Lounge, I published a small ebook of readers’ favorite quotes from 20+ years of publishing. I started it last month because I thought it would be the easiest project ever — a nice extra for paid members, filtering my collection of ~2,000 quotes down to the
SeO what?
A new algo dropped from Google and it appears to have the world of SEO in a tizzy. So what? If you’re like me, you’ve learned to recoil at the thought of playing by the rules of someone else’s game instead of serving your readers. And besides,
AI can replace your job. Here’s what it can’t replace.
AI’s weakness lies in technology that predates the web. AI is now the single most-cited reason for job cuts in the U.S. CFOs expect AI-driven cuts to be 9x higher this year, with 44% of all CFOs saying they’re planning layoffs. 9-to-5 jobs
Fix your roof when it’s raining.
Tis the season for overwhelm. Often, in times like these and when being pushed to their limits, creatives will seek help and hear this age-old advice about when to adjust their processes, “Fix your roof when it’s sunny.” This is not helpful. Here’s the problem: Roofs don’
Personal brands to the rescue
Let’s close out summer on a high note — a business doing it right. My wife signed us up for this summer camp-themed dinner at a local restaurant. We were greeted with Old Fashioneds, served with the chefs’ high-end interpretation of camp food, and read a ghost story
Can personal brands save big business?
NP Digital asked 200 companies about their employees’ personal brands. If you’re guessing that most companies said, “Huh? what?” you’re probably right. Over 80% of the companies didn’t support their employees’ personal brands. Only 18 of the companies reported that they both supported employees with personal brands,
Stop asking me if I exist.
Is this true for you? I keep getting emails from newsletters asking me if I’m still around. Maybe it’s because I use Apple products, which emphasize privacy, and mask a lot of opens and clicks that newsletters (still?!) use to determine engagement, as if we were living in
Be weird. Save Lives.
We don’t deserve dogs. So, I got a new puppy. I figure the lack of sleep and constant cleanups will eventually get me close enough to deserving this dog. This past week I wrote about how the rest of the newsletter world is waking up to the fact that