When is it ethical to sell low quality products?
This month I’m posting every day, picking the top voted reader question and answering it. With 50 votes, today’s winner, submitted…
Latest Blog Posts
How to Overcome Cynicism
How do you overcome cynicism in an environment determined to maintain it? You overcome a toxic environment by walking…
My Most Popular Posts of 2013
There are always surprises in which posts earn the most attention and which are ignored. I’ve learned it’s hard…
Why I’m Posting daily in January 2014
I love writing by assignment, especially challenges that test my limits. I’m grateful to you readers for helping me…
What designers can learn from the AK-47
Mikhail Kalashnikov, the primary inventor of the AK-47, died yesterday in Russia. His invention is possibly the most popular…
How to present well without slides
If you were having an important conversation with a friend at a restaurant, would you pull out a projector…
The 3 best books I read in 2013
It’s common in December to see lists of “best of the year” for books and films. I read 20…
Banning Something Makes It Powerful
Today is the 80th anniversary of the repeal of the American prohibition of alcohol, and it serves as an…
Why Writers Are Cranky
I enjoyed this recent post, 14 Ways to Tick off a Writer, because many of these things have happened to…
The Dangers of Faith In Data
Here are the notes from my Warm Gun SF keynote, based on one of the stories from The Year Without Pants (An…
The Year Without Pants Cover: how it was designed
I’ve previously written about how covers should be designed (See How To Design A Great Cover). My fifth book,…
What I Learned At Hiroshima (In Photos)
I just returned from two weeks vacation in Japan. It was the first true vacation (no email, no lectures,…
Amazon.com names The Year Without Pants a best book of 2013
Last week Amazon.com announced its best business books of 2013 and The Year Without Pants made the list.
Meeting the Street Poet of NYC
Selling books is hard. It’s a surprise for most writers, even experienced ones, how much harder finding people interested…
Video: The Year Without Pants lecture (@Google NYC)
From this month’s book tour, the good folks at Google posted the video from my talk. Q&A begins at…
Updated: Speaking checklist for great talks (Printable)
Here’s the best checklist for ensuring sure your presentation is as great as it can be. There’s a lot…
SF/Bay Area Book Tour, 2013
The third leg of The Year Without Pants book tour will be in the San Francisco bay area the…
Book Review: Remote: Office Not Required, by 37Signals
In writing The Year Without Pants, about my year working for the 100% remote organization at WordPress.com, I deliberately avoided…
Working For Free: An Argument
Tim Krieder, author of the excellent We Learn Nothing, wrote in the NYTimes about the mistake of working for…
Do You Need That Meeting?
I’m sitting in Kevin Hoffman‘s session at UI18 on Running Better Meetings. He makes good arguments about facilitation and visual…