8 New Ideas for Dev Interrupted Season 3
Dev Interrupted grew to a top 100 technology podcast in 2022 - what are we going to change for our Season 3 kicking off Jan 3rd 2023?
I’ve got lots of ideas.
Infrastructure for decentralized money: Terra x Flux
Why does the partnership announcement between Terra and Flux matter?
Decentralized money needs decentralized infrastructure. Flux is helping Terra become ‘censorship resistant’.
8 ways to grow your career while working from home
How do you keep remote hires engaged with the team - and ensure they have growth opportunities?
I've learned some clear steps to alleviate this potential problem -here are four tips for individuals and four more for team leaders to enable their organizations
4 Lessons from Crashing a 1700+ Person Livestream
I hosted a live stream event for 1700 software engineering leaders - and we managed to crash it in the first 5 minutes.
Here’s what we learned from fixing it.
Why electric cars won't solve climate change
Elon Musk is wrong; Tesla won't save the planet from climate change.
Electric cars might look great in your driveway, but they're also a symbol of a systemic problem: an ineffective car-based approach to addressing transportation's climate impacts.
What do different Twitter emojis mean?
Ever wondered what all of those emojis in Twitter names mean? Confused by why your friend has roses all over their Twitter profile? This article can help, with a list of Twitter emojis and their meaning.
How can Challenger Sales methodology help your marketing?
While implementing Challenger methodology congruency into content marketing, we face a major obstacle – it’s significantly more difficult to tailor marketing content to specific customers than it is to tailor sales interactions. Instead, we can build constructive tension and achieve similar impact by addressing technology trends and specific market segments.
How to get your email opened and read: 5 tips on email marketing
Over the past 9 years, I have worked with countless fundraising and email marketing campaigns. Yet many organizations are startlingly ineffective with their online asks. I've written this piece to detail 5 common mistakes I see people making with their email marketing campaigns and how to fix them.
Growing the Green Economy Podcast: A new project!
Today, I’m officially launching my podcast - Growing the Green Economy across all major podcasting platforms including Apple Podcasts, Google, Sticher, and Spotify. I’ve released the first two episodes - and you can also check out the audiogram version on Youtube.
Challenger Marketing Content—How to make an effective digital marketing funnel
What does your marketing funnel look like when integrating Challenger Sales Methodology & content marketing?
Challenger marketing content can reinvigorate your content funnel if you redesign your sales and marketing process with Challenger methodology.
Celebrating Two Years of Writing and What’s Next
I started publishing my writing two years ago and in that time have published more than an article a month, plus placed op-eds with the Puget Sound Business Journal, the Urbanist, Planetizen, and more.
Here’s whats next—and a look back at the last two years.
How to Subscribe to a Twitch Streamer Using Amazon Prime
Prime members can support their favorite Twitch content creators with a free Amazon Prime Twitch subscription once per month. There is no additional cost for the Prime member, and the content creator gets $2.50+ per Twitch Prime subscriber per month. This article explains how to use the free Prime Gaming (Twitch Prime) Subscription to benefit your favorite content creators.
The Energy Side of Blockchain, Bitcoin, & Cryptocurrency
On March 3, 2020, TF Blockchain hosted their 7th TF Austin event called "The Energy Side of Blockchain, Bitcoin, and Crypto." The panelists discussed how energy plays a factor in bitcoin and cryptocurrency from mining all the way to innovations for energy sectors like oil and gas, and clean energy. This article is a follow up to that event and podcast recording.
Will Voting on Blockchain keep elections fair and transparent?
While blockchain has found great use in storing and facilitating financial transactions, it is increasingly proving to be valuable in facilitating any data transmission. Voting technologies powered by blockchain technology are increasingly cropping up at a time when people are calling for a secure and easier way of completing this civic duty.
I’m 6'1″ 220 lbs — and a victim of domestic abuse
At the start of 2020, I was engaged to a petite woman. We’d been together for three years and had a puppy together.
She was also abusive. When the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic forced lockdowns, I begged her to stop drinking, hoping it would calm the storm inside of her.
It worked for a couple of weeks.
6 ways the Democratic party failed in the 2020 elections and the 6 ways to fix it
Instead of picking up seats, Democrats have lost them in the US House. Yes, gerrymandering plays a role, but it isn't the whole story. Many democrats made messaging mistakes across the board, underspent on digital, ignored field, and far too often failed to understand the diverse Latino vote and other BIPOC.
To win up and down the ballot, Democrats must fix these 6 issues going into the 2022 mid-terms: here's how they can.
Examining Racism Through the Revolutionary Lives of Malcolm X & MLK (Book Review)
Like many white people, I am behind the curve in true understanding of the subtle and overt forms of prejudice and racism that exist today. As I get older it also means I have a difference in understanding from a generational standpoint that I need to keep in mind. How do I get out of myself enough to understand the perspective a 25-30 year old woman who is a person of color? How about a guy the same age?
How mass timber helps stop wildfires and builds the green economy
What’s good for our forests and planet can also be good for our jobs, communities, and economy. That’s why we’re writing this together—an ex-Democratic political operative and an ex-Republican staff member who want to see mass timber flourish.
How to save modern media
Something is wrong. Mass media and social media are increasingly polarized, and the problem of fake news is becoming worse. Our elections were disrupted in 2016 by a foreign adversary using social media misinformation tools and today the facts of a debate are different depending on who you talk to, what media they listen to, and what party they’re in. We need to change our media paradigm.
So you've decided to run as a Democrat? Congrats, you're a socialist.
Or at least, the Republicans are going to call you one.
Some Democrats spend all their time trying to stop this smear, to stop the GOP from defining them by saying no, that’s not us. I want x, not y. Those Democrats usually lose. Instead, they need to focus on their message, not the GOPs, and quit letting them define the terms of the election.