The Best Damn Food & Drink Gift Guide 2025
Hey friends! It’s been a crazy few months what with flutters hands, gestures to the burning tire fire just outside the window. The point…
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Welcoming Kristy Morrison as Chief of Staff
Story time—late last year, I developed a painful, still-undiagnosed condition in my hands, likely from repetitive stress. Blah blah chronic pain, it’s hard to…
The Best Damn Food & Drink Gift Guide 2024
Everyone’s favorite food and drink gift guide is back with all-new picks! Same same, but different. It’s the 5th anniversary of this gift guide.…
Snackbar Studio Raised $2.15M Using SparkToro’s Funding Model (and we’re open sourcing the docs)
Since SparkToro’s founding in 2018, I’ve been been passionately loud about our unique funding model (becase it’s a really good idea.) The model focuses…
The Chill Work Manifesto
Shortly after Amanda Natividad joined SparkToro, she coined the term “Chill Work” to describe the unusually patient, mature, laid-back approach we take to building…
The Best Damn Food & Drink Gift Guide on the Internet 2023
Here it is, our fourth annual edition! The first three were just practice for this masterpiece of culinary and imbibable magnificence. Because this year,…
The Final Chapter of My First Startup
I’ve told this story only once before. Never in writing. Never on video. My voice was shaky and I barely stumbled through it. But…
An Employee’s Guide to Building a Personal Brand
You don’t need to announce your bid to join the creator economy. You don’t need to sell templates or courses, or even start a…
Maybe Better Tools Make Us Better Creators
A couple weeks ago, I asked on Mastodon about getting a new, lightweight travel laptop. I got a bunch of kind replies, but it…
How Rand Makes Those Split-Screen Videos You See on LinkedIn and Twitter
Several times a week, I post videos that look like this on (usually) LinkedIn and Twitter: They tend to get a lot of engagement…