"The best ROI on your career likely won’t come from AI. Put yourself in the right spaces and connect with real people."
Dave Gerhardt · The best marketing education won't come from a course
Show up. Meet people. Be helpful. Repeat.
"I still like to link to things. That sounds almost ridiculous to point out… but when did we stop linking? The hyperlink may be one of the most beautiful ideas the internet ever gave us. Here’s something interesting… go somewhere else… read it yourself… explore that space… discover another voice… fall down your own rabbit hole."
Mitch Joel · A Kinder... Gentler Internet - Thinking With Mitch Joel, Formerly Six Pixels of Separation
This. Absolutely this. I've never been much of a creator. I'm more of a curator. Recaps and roundups are my happy place. The anti-zero-click. It's why I spun this new site up. I wanted to get back to that. Back to sharing what I'm reading and watching and thinking about, algorithms be damned.
"When you're observing, you see more things to be curious about. When you're curious, you ask more questions. And when you ask more questions, you start learning things that you wouldn't learn by just standing there thinking about them yourself."
Yurii Lazaruk · Week 78 - Look Above and Beyond 🔭
"What if we actually built something that could last? Something we enjoy running, that doesn't need to be sold to be considered a success? [...] Maybe the answer boils down to this: we're doing something we love as a job, we built something, from nothing, and we have the freedom to make our own choices."
Kudos to Marie and the Tally team for bootstrapping to $6M in ARR in six years.