But will it scale? - Issue #320
People at a certain kind of growing software company are always asking if a thing will scale. You can win meetings by asking the question, "will it scale?" every so often.
Generation to Generation - Issue #319
I'm a sucker for fake trends and the sorts of cool, simple explanations of complex phenomena that have to be mostly false. Generational analysis usually fits the latter category: the idea that all Americans born between 1995 and whenever share traits is a composition fallacy. Some of the "Greatest Generation" were cowards and some of the Boomers were selfless heroes: I don't think you can accurately and completely generalize groups of people by birth year.
A few reads about tech and politics - Issue #318
This week, we're returning to some of the topics that have always popped up in this email: tech and politics.
The 7 Top Unused HubSpot Features
As companies cut budgets in 2023, you’ll need to get more done with existing software. Here are 7 ways to get more from your HubSpot account.
Is privacy normal? - Issue #317
Peggy Noonan's column on Prince Harry, published last week, ended with a broader thought about privacy. It has all of the pearl-clutching and "back in my day" of a good Noonan column, but I think her point is worth quoting at length:
A meal with a friend - Issue #316
From Robert Penn Warren's All the King's Men:
7 Trends that Sales, Marketing, and Service Teams Face in 2023
As part of my consulting work, I try to help sales, marketing, and service leaders zoom out to think about where the world is going and how they should react to it. Usually this is a process of me identifying trends and us talking about how they impact the client's revenue operations.
On Bonsai - Issue 313
One Spring a few years ago, I dug up some maple trees and a few...
Tech is coming for your tech job - Issue #310
Here’s a quick summary of where we are with tech: we were promised self-driving cars, instead we got Twitter; now that your white-collar job is mostly interacting with tech, the robots will quickly be better at it than you.