by David | Jan 21, 2015 | technology, working
It doesn’t matter how careful you are, if you’re the last human in a world of zombies, you’re going to get eaten sooner or later. You may not have noticed, but one of the last humans not using gmail – that’s me – recently joined the...
by David | Jan 13, 2015 | science!, working
This one’s really for everybody, not just marketers, but I think that marketers are in an unusually good position to make good on it, if we choose to. I resolve to acknowledge uncertainty, and to remedy it with experimental data. In a field full of (largely...
by David | Jan 5, 2015 | reading & writing, working
Welcome to an occasional series kicking off 2015 with some resolutions for marketing and marketers. I’ll do my best to stick to them if you do. First up, I resolve not to treat content as a commodity. If content is critical to your strategy, and I’m going...
by David | Aug 14, 2014 | culture, reading & writing, working
If you’ve been hitting the networking circuit or just generally hanging around it, you’ve no doubt been handed your share of business cards with wacky titles on them. The fad probably peaked in the late aughts, but it’s not totally gone, especially...
by David | Jul 3, 2014 | urbanism, working
They say that your MIT credentials get more impressive and valuable the farther you get from MIT. This is nicely illustrated by this thing that happened to me in New York the other day, which most certainly could not have happened in Cambridge. It also, by the way,...
by David | Apr 7, 2014 | culture, working
There’s a lot of talk that learning to being able to (write) code is the new must-have skill. I think there may be something to that, but I think another key skill to be taught and learned will be how to write a decent bug report. If you’re thinking,...
