The secret to a good summer

Something’s been brewing with millennials/Gen Z and Airbnb since the pandemic started — and it’s not good — Thanks to a somewhat-notable intervening event in 2020 that scrambled global travel, my wife and I just returned from a much-belated honeymoon in Spain. Like we initially planned 2.5 …

We shouldn’t all have to be programmers. — I’ve recently been spending a lot of time thinking about what’s the next “big thing” — partially because I’m not convinced that the current prevailing narrative of crypto/web3/etc. is all its cracked up to be. To be clear, I don’t think that there’s nothing there at all, but I do…

People will put up with a lot of mistakes if you’re a good person — Over the past few months as I’ve told people about our journey building and now selling our agency, a number of curious entrepreneurs have asked something along the lines of, “What was your secret? Why did clients work with you?” Honestly, there isn’t a great answer. Every client had their…

Some places in the Northeast that I’d put my chips on in the post-Monday to Friday age — The pandemic “shook loose” a lot of people. …

Process and inspiration are sometimes the same things — We all create stuff. Maybe you’re a designer, or a writer, or a programmer, or a teacher, or an entrepreneur. At some point in our professional or personal lives, we all need to make something, sometimes. And because we all have had to do it, we all know that creating…

Even if you don’t think you have a budget, you have a budget — A few years ago I was chatting with a commercial printer we used to do a lot of business with, and I asked him what the minimum run was on a piece we were designing. His answer: “One. We can’t print less than one.” While that unexpected bluntness cracked me…

The bigger question is: do we even need to own the car? — When asked, “range fear” is the biggest hurdle for adoptees of electric cars. Drivers desperately don’t want to be stuck with a dead battery, far from home or a charging station, because they forgot to plug their EV in last night. …

Nothing has as large of a cultural footprint with as little money — Over the past few weeks, it seems like every millennial has seen, and commented on, the news of this October’s planned “When We Were Young” music festival. …

Each hour expires 60 minutes at a time — As nice as it would be otherwise, business is inherently unpredictable. Sometimes you have a slow day, week, or month. Other times you are running around like a chicken with its head cut off. That’s part of what makes the whole thing fun. Retainer contracts, where you set aside 10…