Category: Essays
Not Every Company Is A Tech Company
MIT, CNBC, Wall Street Journal, and others are declaring every business is a tech company now. Technology is pervasive in all businesses and saying “every company is a tech company” makes a sexy headline. It’s like the new version of pronouncing email dead; while untrue, it’s easy to build a case for the claim. I’m…
Should I Give Up Foods Tom Brady Does Not Eat?
I was sent an article about Tom Brady’s diet, with the question; “should I give up the foods Brady doesn’t eat?” Judging from the article, Tom Brady doesn’t eat a lot of things. Some, like white sugar and white flour, can be cut from most diets and be an automatic positive. But dairy, nightshades (like…
Should I Use Twitter? A 2019 Risk-Benefit Analysis Of Using Twitter
Periodically I try to make Twitter work for me, a productivity tool! Or if not productivity, a way to be informed, entertained… just to promote things I care about, perhaps? It’s failed for me, at the very least the way I was using it has not been working to any of these ends. Productivity on…
The Four, Book Review
Written by Scott Galloway, “The Four: The Hidden DNA of Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google” reads like the highest aspiration of the edgy business book genre. Flipping to any page, and putting a finger on any sentence gives you about a 70% chance of reading an (at least semi) meaningful insight, wrapped in a warm…
Most Marketing Books are Crap
Most marketing books are crap, and broadly speaking, most business books suck too. These books are mostly written by people selling consulting, or worse, some productized service. While I’m critical of most business books, I’m focusing this beating on marketing books only. Out of a sampling of books on marketing; it’s common to see a…
Why is Self-improvement Bad When it’s Biohacking?
After looking at The Atlantic’s take on Twitter’s CEO, Jack Dorsey’s fasting; I’m getting tired of the way some publications stand against well… self-improvement. I realize some of the Silicon Valley bros make it an easy target. But “biohacking” is self-improvement, backed by science. Sometimes biohacking is also pseudoscience, and other times just crazy measures that…
Moonwalking with Einstein, Book Review
Moonwalking with Einstein is a delightful read offering a solid overview of memory techniques. I normally finish a book before recommending it, but the day I started reading I’d told at least six people to check it out. A few days later when I finished I considered it one of the best pieces of participatory…
What I Learned Failing Three Side Hustles Last Year
Last year I started a few projects outside of my day to day at Push ROI. I wanted side hustles, the kind of small businesses I could actively help grow, but that didn’t require funding beyond what I could bootstrap. Some of those failed pretty epically, for reasons I was sure were in no way…
