A Long, Ugly Year of Depression That’s Finally Fading
Yesterday morning I woke up early to speak at the Business of Software conference in Boston. It was my first time there, and it’s…
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Mixergy Interview On Startup Marketing, Reaching Early Adopters, Burnout, & More
A few weeks ago, Andrew Warner of Mixergy interviewed me on a number of topics. We started by talking about launching a startup marketing…
Can’t Sleep; Caught in The Loop
During the worst weeks of this year, I’ve had this weird mental cycle that, despite being incredibly exhausted, keeps me awake. In my head,…
Swapping Drivers on this Long Road Trip Together
2013 has been a really hard year for me. In many ways, it’s been harder than even the 2002-2006 era when my Mom and…
10 Traffic Graphs from the SEOmoz to Moz Domain Migration
A lot of folks have asked me about how the domain migration from seomoz.org to moz.com has gone after the past few months. Ruth…
Vision-Based Framework
Some companies exist primarily (or exclusively) to make money. Others exist for a variety of non-financial (or pseudo-financial) reasons. But in much of the…
Generosity & Entitlement
I’ve been trying something new at Moz. I schedule 90 minutes every week or two for “office hours,” and invite anyone from any team…
Well, He’s Not Going to Get Very Far
Company culture is incredibly fragile. It’s hard for founders/CEOs/execs to understand how little faith and trust people have in us when we stand up…
If Management is the Only Way Up, We’re All F’d
Geraldine used to love her job at Cranium (the board game startup in Seattle, prior to the Hasbro acquisition & layoffs). She wrote questions…
The Expectation of 100%
It’s 4:36am. I’ve been awake for an hour, stumbling through email and catching up on reading. G and I flew back from London two…