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. For a certain breed of former pop-punk fans, the lineup looks too good to be true: My Chemical Romance, Paramore, Avril Lavinge, Bright…

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…

Or you could call them TikThoughts I guess — As a 30ish millennial, I’ve recently experienced something completely new: something on the internet that isn’t built explicitly for me. Every social media platform that has reached some level of success has, at least initially, pretty much been made for millennials. TikTok isn’t though. Though the torch has been passed…

From EVs to VR, it’s feeling a lot like 2007 — Looking back, iOS 6 was wild. Between 2007 and 2013 we were so collectively enamored by the glossy sheen of high-res touch screens that we went absolutely nuts. The notes app was a yellow legal pad with leather binding. Game Center had a green felt background and wood trim. Find…