It’s been tough condensing an entire industry into a couple posts, but I’m mostly satisfied with Part 1 and Part 2. Let’s move on to Part 3, The Future Of Search. A quick recap: Google rose to become the leader in search through their backlink-focused algorithms. They crawl and index a huge portion of the web, and pull […]
Search Engines, Part 2 of 3: How Google Inc Works
Part 1 of this series talked about the history of search engines. It’s really interesting to me, but I work with them. Today, let’s talk about something more applicable to the average internet user: how they work and what that means for you. Google’s Loyal Customers You’re probably loyal to a certain search engine. Chances […]
Search Engines, Part 1 of 3: What Are They and Where Did They Come From?
After spending a couple evenings writing this, I’ve decided to split the full post into three segments. This one will be about the background behind search engines. I plan for the second one to be about how they currently work and how to optimize for them, and the third would be what they’re going to […]
Be Responsible: Fire Your Sales Team
Okay, not your whole sales team, but you’ll see my point. What Not to Do A common thought that’s been in my head recently is the effectiveness of the old-school style of sales tactics. Think this guy:
Being Responsible in a Digital World
I finally got some time to put together a response to my first post (here)! I’ve been thinking about it a lot, so here goes. The last thing I wrote in that first post was a question: How do tech and other non-product-based companies become “responsible”? My buddy Steven Case gave an insightful response, saying […]
The Responsible Company
I’ve been putting off writing my first post for a while, but I finally found something worth writing about. FYI, I plan on writing shorter, more frequent posts, so this won’t be long. What inspired me was the book I’m reading. It’s called “The Responsible Company: What We’ve Learned From Patagonia’s First 40 Years” by Yvon […]