What we're afraid of - #491
It's kind of fun when a thing you've been focused on enters the discourse; when something you know something about turns into the real headlines. You feel like you're on...
We are what we do - #490
This email started right around the time that longform internet writing became a category of its own. I sourced many of the first shared reading links from...
The late majority - #489
Every few months, I used this space to talk a little bit about my day job. It seems like that post always includes a link to Benedict Evans's latest essay: in July I...
Are you actually doing it? - #488
We spent the first few weeks of June in Tennessee. The kids were done with school, my work allows me to work from roughly anywhere, and my in-laws are just about a...
But what did I actually know? - #487
"Did you die?"
On inspiration - #486
When Harvard Business School's Jill Avery spoke to us at HubSpot Fellows in June, one thing that stuck with me was in her description of how she studied marketing. Her...
That which is unseen - #485
It started in my first job in DC. In addition to the TVs on our desks continuously broadcasting the news, we wired ourselves up with all manner of emailed political...
Good criticism - #484
Almost every weekend, I read a printed newspaper. I save the best for last: I start with the news, then opinion, then business and arts, then lifestyle, and finally the...
We don’t do that here - #483
As you read this, I'll be playing golf, probably badly, at a tradition-bound golf club not far from the ocean. Our collared shirts will be tucked in; our caps will be...