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Don't Make This Simple PR Mistake I Just Made

Ugh.

Ok. Let me explain the stupid thing that I just did. After the heart surgery, I closed down a lot of operations and parted ways with a lot of awesome people who were working with me on a bunch of stuff. It took me a while to get my head on straight…

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Treat The Journalist Like Your Date

I have a lot of pet peeves. I don’t like when people talk during movies or TV shows. TV shows I get less crazed about because you can pause it now, but that wasn’t always the case, and I remember the bad old days when a DVR didn’t exist. Sure there was…

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Your Product Doesn't Make Phone Calls

I got asked a question today from a startup in the U.K. They wanted to know if there really was a…

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That Awkward Moment When Your Cab Driver Pulls Out His Dick

I don’t even know where to start …

Ok. How about this? Since May of 2012, I have been “on the…

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The Endless Similarities Between OK Cupid And Working In Sales

I am reluctantly reentering the dating pool.

There was a night in a San Francisco hotel room, back in March, where I quickly became aware that there was something up with my physically. I think you have enough information to draw your own conclusions as…

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How To Make A Wikipedia Page That Will Stick (And Not Break The Bank)

Yesterday I mentioned that if you or your product don’t have a Wikipedia page, some could argue that you don’t exist. I don’t think I would go that far, but it’s certainly true that you wouldn’t exist to lazy reporters out there. And if you don’t exist…

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So That Was A Waste Of Time

No need to name names or places, but I decided to work on this thing. What it was presented to me as was not at all what it actually was. I was asked to fire people, ask people to work for less money than they were already making, and to get the traffic…

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How To Incorporate "Social Good" Into Your Start-Up's Business Model

I have two brothers who are mentally disabled. One, Brad, is totally self-sufficient. He just does his own thing and doesn’t worry about it. Keith is the total opposite. I don’t have enough space to explain how ridiculous the situations are that he’s…

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Happy Anniversary, Social Media Is Bullshit

L’shanah tovah.

That’s happy new year for you gentiles.

Right now I’m supposed to write down a giant list of things I feel guilty about over the past year, but there’s not enough paper. It was the best worst year ever. Let’s leave it at that for now.

Funn…

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(Even More) Messages From The New Frontier

I’ve never really been a long-range thinker. The most I could ever really do was six months. Maybe a year. MAYBE. That’s all changed. I have the next ten years figured out, and if it doesn’t factor into the plan, it’s irrelevant and doesn’t need to be…

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Get Real. You're Probably Never Going To Be An Astronaut

So, as mentioned all over the place, on August 22nd, 2014, I’m out of the marketing / PR business / non-comedy business. I’ve accomplished my goal (“one exciting year”), and as promised, I’m moving on to the next thing.

When you have ADD like I do, goal…

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"Be Yourself". LOL. Just Kidding. That's Really Bad Advice

There are two things that are frequently said to kids that are absolute garbage:

1. “Be yourself”.

2. “You can be anything you want to be”.

The second is less annoying than the first. You CAN be anything you want, but you have to be smart about it. You…

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