This isn’t one of those “New Year, New Me!” posts. It’s just some things I want to get done that I feel like will help me in a lot of other areas in life.

My top five blog posts had pretty much nothing to do with marketing.

2020 was a bummer (putting it mildly). I tried to focus on the bright spots rather than get bogged down in everything else that went wrong.

Was I paid by Amazon to write this? Not at all. I just appreciate the fact that I can be a bibliophile and clutter free at the same time.

We know social drives polarization. Some platforms are more effective at it than others. A new research study of 200k people shows us how.

I kicked off this series asking myself an introspective question after watching The Social Dilemma. If social media is so bad…am I complicit as a digital marketer? Do I shoulder the blame for getting paid to play on these platforms?

We apply broad stroke judgements on large groups based on the fringe actions of a minority because…that’s all we see.

Like some of the people interviewed in the documentary, I had a much more Pollyanna view of social media. I saw it as a source for positive change. Because for a while, it really was.

How does someone reconcile the uncomfortable truths about social and tech addiction with a career (and most importantly, your family’s livelihood) that leveraged those very tools? Did I shoulder some responsibility? If I do, why do I simultaneously feel like a victim to these tools?

How the Forest app and two other healthy habits have helped me stay focused in a distracting time.