I asked for a second opinion on my own offer, with one instruction: tell me what's wrong. The useful part came after the answers. Last week I asked two reviewers with no reason to be nice to me to take my business apart. Both of them were AI
A message came in for a job nowhere near my usual size. I said yes, I do, anyway. The message came in on an ordinary Tuesday. Not from a founder. Not from anyone near my usual target audience. Nope, it was a woman who marries people for a living, asking,
Start here. What I believe, what I do, and what I will not do. For six years I ran a business that got paid when the answer was more ads. I want to be careful with that sentence, because it sounds like a confession and it is only half of
A friend asked me to look at his shop before he hands it to his kids. The problem he brought me wasn't the real one. It almost never is.
In the middle of the month I started stepping back from the company I built, I spent twelve days in Bosnia with no laptop and no social media. What happened on either side of that break told me whether I can actually let go.
Back in 2006, I decided to leave my supermarket career path and become a florist at my neighbour's owned kiosk. I had never touched a bouquet in my life. The plan was sensible. An experienced employee would train me for a few months until I knew what I
A founder I work with had a problem he couldn't quite name. The brand was growing. The ads were working, genuinely working, the kind of numbers most people would be thrilled with. And yet it felt capped. Like he was pedalling harder every month just to stay in
The raw, operational truth of running a lean agency with four kids.
On paper, everything looked great...
Honesty wins. And yes this cliche is also true.
I have a confession.
I took my laptop to Egypt. On purpose.