Month: February 2025

  • Speed vs Flexibility

    In complex B2B systems, you often have to pick your poison when dealing with data accessibility. I remember when Marketo was first developed and we asked how many leads/contacts a company would have. The answer we received was about 3k. Little did we know that the real answer would be closer 1 million leads and…

  • LinkedIn Etiquette

    LinkedIn is the only social media platform that I actively engage in. I don’t use Instagram, Twitter, or Facebook. I like to doom scroll TikTok a bit, but it’s not like I talk to anyone on it. LinkedIn is the one platform that I will actually talk to people. I accept connection requests from any…

  • Vote with your wallet

    Corporations are not human beings, no matter what Citizens United and the Supreme Court says. As non-human entities, they have no compassion, no empathy, no sense of right and wrong. Corporations are set up for one purpose: to create value, usually in the form of money. Now obviously, I don’t recommend living off the grid,…

  • Design vs “Design”

    In LinkedIn, I will often see someone ask what is the better UX or UI design. Something like this: This drives me crazy. In my B2B design world, this is a meaningless detail that doesn’t make any difference. This is B2C mobile design and they don’t do what I do, and I don’t do what…

  • Escapism

    I remember the news cycles from 2016-2020. It was a non-stop flood of news ranging from the horrible to the ridiculous. (rarely anything good). I decided back then to limit my news intake to maintain my sanity. We are just two weeks into the 2nd Trump administration and I sadly admit things have become much…