Here’s a story about the most important part of your life that you’re probably overlooking. A few months ago, a boutique agency asked me if I could shoot and edit a video project for their client. The agency’s owner knows I did video work for many years, and she trusts Read more…
Here’s why everyone else is doing better at life than you.
How to redefine who we are to the audience that matters most: ourselves.
Look, this is going to hurt, but it needs to be said. Ready? Nobody Else Wants to Hear You Complain Ever. It doesn’t matter what it’s about. You had a shitty day at work? So did most people. Your Comcast rep was rude? Get over it. You’re not fulfilled in Read more…
I am where I am in life because of a phone call I made to a radio station in 1996. Let me explain. In the summer of 1996, I was living in my hometown of Erie, PA. I hadn’t gone to college yet — hadn’t even gotten a GED yet, Read more…
Want to have a better day? Do any of these things. 1. Unfollow someone on Facebook. Who brings your Facebook experience down? Is it your racist uncle, your histrionic coworker, or that rando you haven’t talked to since high school who complains nonstop and makes every day feel like it’s Read more…
In 2009, I was one of three people invited to teach the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette how to use Twitter. At the end of that session — in a room filled with skeptical reporters who seemed sure that Twitter was either useless, the devil, or both — we offered to help anyone Read more…
I asked this question on Twitter back in 2010 and again in 2015. Both times, the answers were the same: interesting won, by far. And when I asked how people would like their online presence to be described, “Interesting” was their top answer then, too. This is actually kind of Read more…
You want to succeed at whatever you’re doing, right? Then stop making it harder than it is. Life and business are deceptively simple: make more than you spend, and give more than you take. Everything else is just variety. Inherently, we all know this. But we trip ourselves up by Read more…
What kinds of media do we most often share online, and why? How do we want our online presence to be perceived by others?