I’ve had some weird conversations lately on how to pick out the best domain for a brand. There’s a lot of content out there, and a lot of opinions, but I’m going to clear it up once and for all. The domain your brand craves is your brand name dot com. You don’t need [...] Continue reading →

I kind of checked out of mainstream media last year. News just got more repetitive and depressing. Social media got more toxic and isolating. What media I did intentionally consume was driven by my choices and recommendations, which I either sought out or that came from people whose taste I trust. I was [...] Continue reading →

Most of us have probably had some sort of privacy tracker/ad blocker on our browser for a while now, but none (that I’ve used) have been more fun than the new DuckDuckGo extension. Does it do anything noteworthy? I really don’t know, but it does give you an A-F privacy grade for each site [...] Continue reading →

Being a remote worker has a ton of benefits, but one of the negatives is that it’s much harder to create a groundswell of support for a project/feature you care about. Ideas tend to go one of two ways — in the planning stage they get put into the project soup (usually with some [...] Continue reading →

A good newsletter is a conversation. Stuff happens, content gets written, people read it, people reply, people reply to the reply, and so on. Fortunately, I think I have a good grasp of the writing part, but the conversation involves a layer I’m a little iffy about. Where should the replies go? Here are [...] Continue reading →

Found in my Notes app from 10pm last night: Life realization playing Bloons TD 5 for roughly three hours today. If the story never changes, unless you’re being financially incentivized, you’re doing something wrong. Solve your problem, as Lenz would say, by killing it with fire. Nothing against Bloons TD 5 (it’s actually [...] Continue reading →

I’ve had a bank account with Wells Fargo since I was 13 years old, and in it contains a checking account, a savings account, a business account, and an overdraft credit card that just sits there. And it’s fine. I don’t really like the app or the website all that much, but they do [...] Continue reading →