Cultural problems preventing progress
Tom DehnelI run a small SEO consulting business in San Francisco, CA. I like to write a little bit and get in arguments with my…
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Big Progress
Tom DehnelI run a small SEO consulting business in San Francisco, CA. I like to write a little bit and get in arguments with my…
Value your time. Trash belongs in landfills.
With a lot of Amazon returns, it’s a pointless waste of time to send the thing back to Amazon and you should throw it away…
What is Woke? Definition and Characteristics of Woke People
/wōk/ adj. Having the tendency to view personal or societal problems as primarily the result of deliberate or systemic bias or unfairness, and which must…
Democracy exists to correct errors, not build consensus
People often think of democracy as a sort of “majority rule” system, where everyone gets to vote on leaders and laws and the result is…
Crushing the Myth of Late-Stage Capitalism
Capitalism is the only economic system that includes reliable, built-in incentives to solve problems by organically removing bad ideas, products, and companies, and replacing them…
The word ”impact” doesn’t have any impact at all
The growing use of the word “impact” to speak passively is weakening the English language. This week, I came across this press release on Twitter’s…
Identity Debt: The Future Cost of Being You
They say you can be anything you want to be, but they never mention the cost of maintenance. Identity debt is the future cost of…
Principles and concepts list
OK, here’s the list… Problems are the source of all progress People are creative when they need to solve problems, not when they don’t have…
What is Russell Conjugation?
Russell Conjugation is when someone chooses different words to describe something, depending on how favorable they want to be to the thing they are describing….
How to Be Wise About Working From Home
I work from home every day as an SEO consultant, and I’ve got a few years of work-from-home experience that I think would be useful…
39 Ways Companies Stack the Deck Against You in Job Interviews
Updated September 2020. Originally written in mid-2017 in collaboration with Zvi Epner. Illustrations by Kath Loose. Even if you get the job, the interview process…