Nathanael Yellis's Blog: technology, strategy, business, campaigns, and more.

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

Marketo Summit Presentation: the making of

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

Fenway Bean Boots (the Greatest Thing of All)

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

Delivering the Awesome: Sentinel Pages for Heritage Action

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: Baseball, Data & the Amish

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

My Mom's Best Early Tweets

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

Mom'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"

My Paradigm for Communication

Movie Review: Shrink

Public Speaking is Terrifying

Being Honest Without Being Mean

Trouble with the Internet