I’d venture to say that wrestling with feelings of worthlessness and inadequacy are universal experiences. Creators and entrepreneurs have to fight these feelings frequently. If you’ve read this far and you were expecting to find a solution or advice, I’m sorry to disappoint. I can only offer solidarity. ...
And in last week’s Lumastic Live - the weekly live show we do every Friday at 9am to check-in about what’s going on with the company - I told my cohost, Joshua, that I was taking a couple days at the end of this month to go learn how to surf. So, in this post, I want to talk about some of the things I’ve learned about surfing and how it proves that it (and everything) is art. ...
Yesterday, the founders of Basecamp, a software company that I admire greatly, announced that they were banning political discussion within their company chat system... ...
I'm currently adding in a pronouns field to our user profile settings and had a lot of questions as to how to best do that. Unfortunately, I haven't seen a lot of discussion in developer communities about the implementation of pronoun selectors in apps, so today I want to share with you what I've learned so far! ...
The creator, sharing, and gig economy are one in the same. Their most prominent platforms touch very different industries: YouTube operates in advertising, Airbnb in housing, and Uber in transportation. However, they all share the same business structure. ...
Getting in contact with people is easier than ever in the digital age. Scour the internet, find emails, and send. The thing is, the goal isn’t to send the email, it’s to get a reply. And by some stroke of luck, I actually have a pretty good track record of getting replies from people who are way out of our league. The secret I think is pretty obvious ...
What if ads are a bubble? What happens when YouTube is no longer predominately ad supported? What happens when you have to pay to host your work? What happens when there aren't algorithms that keep people watching and push your content to millions of people? ...
Over the past week, I've been delving into the world of platform cooperatives - a structure where the stakeholders of services on the internet actually own the platforms they live and work on. ...
I've never been much of a writer. With my ADHD brain, talking out my thoughts and feelings has usually been the only way that works for me to synthsize and create. That's why I've been so attached to video for most of my life. ...