Nathanael Yellis | Helping people work better with technology
Nathanael Yellis writes about technology consulting, digital strategy, marketing, simplicity, and more.
The Digital Marketing Strategy of 2022 & Beyond
How to Choose a CRM System (and Keep It)
How to Be Frugal: 10 Years of Savings
Own Your Platform Podcast: for people launching careers in tech
Career Lessons Learned: My Career in Pivots
Failure to Launch: CRM Implementation Best Practices
Simplicity: Building a Life that COVID-19 Doesn’t Disrupt
Why The Iowa Caucus App Failed: 'Political' Technology Doesn't Work
Podcast strategy: revenue or audience growth?
CRM Customization: These Setup Decisions Have a Big Impact
Context for Technology: People Over Product
Acton MBA Lesson Learned: Email Subscribers are Customers
How My Acton MBA Helped Me Be Entrepreneurial in a Big Organization
Elizabeth Warren’s DIY Campaign: No Outsourcing to Political Vendors
Brad Parscale Uses GOP Consultant Kickbacks to Get Rich
Review: Wise Blood
Review: On Writing
Review: The Big Sort: Why the Clustering of Like-Minded America is Tearing Us Apart
Review: The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion
Review: Other Voices, Other Rooms
My talk at TeenPact's National Convention 2017
Subscribe to my new top reads email
Why I Bike to Work
How we developed the tech talk for the 2015 Sentinel Summit
Great video about how to work
A great product email
Making a Presentation: How I Created My Marketo Summit Presentation
Breaking the Mold: OYP's "Confessions of a Public Speaker" Episode
Hold your questions until the end: customizing my style for a interrupting audience
The Judge is Always Right
Housekeeping: A Novel
Bad Religion
Rosette: His Life and Works
50 in 2014: Lessons learned from a year of reading books
That Hideous Strength
Perelandra
Out of the Silent Planet
The perils of talking about web products
Skippy Dies (32 of 50)
Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry Into the Value of Work
What does your city tell you? (bad news for DC-ites)
You live in this place: simplicity is being local
My brokerage doesn't report returns accurately
The French House (30 of 50)
A book on parenting that is actually worth reading (29 of 50)
The Dirty Life
How to field questions
Online optimization slide deck
The Grapes of Wrath
Startup Stories (25 of 50)
The Goldfinch (24 of 50)
1954 (23 of 50)
Why Stories: 10 Characteristics of Effective Stories
Last Night at the Lobster (22 of 50)
Life of Pi
Can People Teach Themselves?
Ball Four
All the Pretty Horses
Jesusland
Dept. of Speculation
The American Religion
Difficult Men
The Red Pony
The Secret History
Onward
Under the Banner of Heaven
Play it as it Lays
The job your product is being hired for
The Christian Century
Scientific Advertising
Macaulay
The Sea Is My Brother
The Circle
The Next 13 Minutes Could Change Everything About Your Career
I Won Fenway Bean Boots!
Remember That Time Guster Played With The Symphony?
True Blue
Email's first impressions
Great things coming
My job
Great Approach to Websites: Focus on users
Debate: When the 1992 Presidential Election Was Lost / Won
You Can't Go Home Again
Humor
All Star Break: Buying Good Baseball Even Less Certain
Leading the Way: Heritage & the Conservative Movement Since 1973
Knowing where you came from: The Conservative Intellectual Movement in America Since 1945
WSJ Editorial Board Calls It Right on Immigration
Using the habit loop to shape Heritage Action's legislative scorecard
The Power of Habit
Sometimes I don't need more options
Word Games in Washington
Chart of the day: how companies assess the risk of growing government
Great Memorial Day Weekend Baseball
Looking forward to the weekend
Success in Education: New Orleans
The Opposite of Ruin Porn
Sweet Caroline Across the Majors Last Night
Lessons Learned from a Small Web Redesign
Read These Articles to Better Your Mind
Opening Day: Can't Buy Me Wins, but Can Buy Me Love
Email Marketing: Your Subscribers Are Your Customers
A Little Logic Goes a Long Way (Weekend Reading)
Weekend read: I Found the Hero's Journey in F. Scott Fitzgerald
Book: Endurance
A Really Bad Unsubscribe Page
Book: What's Holding You Back?
Weekend Reads: Amish Baseball
This Week's Top Reads (there are a six)
A Great Email from Jim Messina
Making Email More Human
This Week's Reading: House of Cards + Big Data, Country Club Republicans, and a 94 Year Old Reporter
Source of Friction: Passwords
Mugabe and the White African
Why Does the New York Times hate North Dakota?
Wouldn't you want to go to a meeting...
Nice ad placement
I made a YouTube video with my GoPro
Lessons from Good to Great: Ask a Rigorous Set of Questions
Inspiring Video
Where you don't find creativity
Stats are Fun (20k lifetime pageviews)
Being Entrepreneurial in a Big Organization
Washington DC Photo and Article for Your Weekend
A Meaningful Tweet from My Dad
Should I get rid of my iPhone?
First gen vs second gen
2012 Election: Yes I Love Technology, but Not As Much As Votes
Gosh I Just Love Apple's Emails
Is the GOP too Religious or Not Religious Enough?
New Style Presentation: Online Messages
Must Read Interview with Acton MBA Founder Jeff Sandefer
Pushing the Nexus 7
Great Advice: Become a [Good] Presenter
Does technology separate us from ourselves, others, and God?
Facebook Makes a Huge Change, Starting with Their Customer's Need
Blink
Changing the MBA
Baseball Begins
Weekend Quotes: Lewis & Sandefer
Andrew on Slacktivism2012
Response to "The End of Religion" by Bruxy Cavey
The Marathon is Laying Siege on My House
GoPro Video: Capitol Bikeshare
Real Life Analytics
Why you should not buy gold
The Day the Internet Stood Still
Calling & The Story of Charlotte's Web
Book: You Are the Message
Patty Yellis's Legacy
Twitter Gold
A Radical Thought: No Office Emails
Spotting Cultural Trends
Book: Where Good Ideas Come From
Read This: The Lost Decade
eNewsletter from Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton
Would Anyone Want to Work Here?
How to introduce an unfavorable idea
Creative Process
Scorecard
Google+
Book: The Weight of Glory
Introduce the next speaker like this
Book Review: Switch
Reflection: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
Connect with Their Brains
The Thing Competitive Debate Teaches
Two ideas for improving a presentation
Planet Money on the GSEs
Analogies Should Help
How to Use Slides
Book: The Tipping Point
Book: The Numerati
Dietrich Bonhoffer on Taking Action
Going Meta Makes This Speech Good
Rework
Americans Don't Like Political Parties
No Numbers!
Why Apple Announced the Beatles So Loudly
The 8 Word Mission Statement
Be Brave: Have a Bad Meeting, HBR
Where do ideas come from?
BLDBLOG Book: The Hypothetical What
My Eulogy for Patty Yellis
Guru = Charlatan
First Impression = Only Impression, if Done Poorly
Acton Book Club: Happiness Hypothesis
Inspiration Sometimes is Uncomfortable and Routine
Education Rediscovered
Two Rules for Presenting
Another Good Question
CRM for Freelance Work
Entrepreneurs' Question 2: Bootstrapping
Two Questions for Entrepreneurs
Why Make it Fun?
A Lesson from Jesus: See the Unexpected
My Creative Process
Book Review: In The Line of Fire
Master Communicator Steven Tomlinson
The Solution to "Corpsman"