When good technology fights the bad. The jacuzzi is one of the last undisturbed oases from digitized society. You can’t bring anything with you. Your phone can get wet. A book gets splattered from the jets, and if you try to watch an outdoor tv from a distance, the sound…

How Facebook, and other platforms, can pave the way. — Sheryl Sandberg will resign from her role as chief operating officer. She led Facebook (now Meta) for fourteen years after her time at Google. Though we’ve seen a few scandals under her leadership (like Cambridge Analytica), She transformed a once vulnerable social media platform into an ads powerhouse that transformed…

Write like you breath. — Most writers don’t write enough. They are insecure or too prideful to make mistakes, or they overthink the process. But we can only become better writers by doing. Writers can become better at their craft when switching from a survival mindset to an abundance mindset. The Writer-Survivor: It needs to…

Is there something in the water? Author’s note: In the spirit of building my storytelling skills, I will occasionally practice in public. If you would like to join this challenge, comment on this article, and perhaps, we can make a community out of it. When I first saw the rock…

How to pivot content (for $) when you’ve run out of buyers. — If you’ve been freelancing for a while, you’ve had many bad experiences; especially when you get started and offer low prices for cheap clients. You write something. They ask for edits. You do them. They don’t like it. They never pay. If they saw a portfolio of your work beforehand…

He’s creating a platform that doesn’t exist yet. I understand the sentiment of Elon Musk. He doesn’t like the idea of a committee deciding what is appropriate for a platform, using vague rules to justify decisions. Instead, he wants a platform that protects free speech as much as the law…

Learn the basic components of a winning page. — Are you looking for a copywriter that can develop a landing page for you? Contact Me for a consultation. As you build your business or startup, you need landing pages that can move customers to action. For example, you might need to make a sale, or you need to capture…

Be an eel. I recently read a book called the Book of Eels, a memoir and educational work about the animal and the human history that ties into it. To this day, eels have a foggy understanding. …

You can do it right now. Imagine you refurbish great furniture for a living. You re-create a desk that gets you into your flow, or a chair that transports you to another world when you pick up a good book. All the hard work you do gets rewarded through a…