Archive of posts from January 2026

Daily Post #2976 • January 31 2026 • Experience

Learning and games

People don’t want to be taught.

Daily Post #2975 • January 30 2026 • Experience

Dorothy marketing

Dorothy didn’t say “Please, tin man, help me get to the wizard of Oz.”

Daily Post #2974 • January 29 2026 • Experience

Faster horses was right

WHen Henry Ford said if he’d asked customers what they wanted, they’d have said faster horses…

Daily Post #2973 • January 28 2026 • Narrative

One line daily

I’ve written and published an idea every day for over 8 years.

Daily Post #2972 • January 27 2026 • Experience

Spreading better

Hype is a dead-end. A trap. An excuse.

Daily Post #2971 • January 26 2026 • Momentum

Deliberating vs flipping a coin

What do you deliberate over?

Daily Post #2970 • January 25 2026 • Experience

Software worth paying for

There’s a lot of software out there.

Daily Post #2969 • January 24 2026 • Experience

Ads arent the problem

Ads aren’t the problem.

Daily Post #2968 • January 23 2026 • Resilience

Try having fewer opinions

Go on social media. Everyone has opinions on everything.

Daily Post #2967 • January 22 2026 • Resilience

Computers and brains

We let our computers have too much stimulation on them.

Daily Post #2966 • January 21 2026 • Resilience

You like hard things

Hard isn’t bad.

Daily Post #2965 • January 20 2026 • Resilience

Childhood limitations

A lot of our hangups come from our childhood.

Daily Post #2964 • January 19 2026 • Momentum

Better vs less vad

Sometimes, we shouldn’t make it better.

Daily Post #2963 • January 18 2026 • Resilience

Kiddo, you've got this

In Starbucks today, I sat behind a guy giving a sales presentation.

Daily Post #2962 • January 17 2026 • Resilience

The majority won't like it

Your best work is not for everybody.

Daily Post #2961 • January 16 2026 • Resilience

A phone

The App Store promoted a popular, general-purpose AI app as a recommended download today.

Daily Post #2960 • January 15 2026 • Momentum

Busyness and business

We can’t really do busyness and business at the same time.

Daily Post #2959 • January 14 2026 • Experience

Give them clues

The thing about brand positioning is…

Daily Post #2958 • January 13 2026 • Experience

Brand loyalty is not logical

When Adobe charges a monthly subscription for its creative apps, the world cries afoul, cursing the company and the subscription model.

Daily Post #2957 • January 12 2026 • Craft

Your next $20

We can invest in our skills by spending $20/month on reading books about them.

Daily Post #2956 • January 11 2026 • Craft

AI and ownership

Today, I saw developers online arguing about which LLMs should be allowed to use their open source contributions.

Daily Post #2955 • January 10 2026 • Narrative

Douyin and Tiktok

TikTok is Chinese.

Daily Post #2954 • January 09 2026 • Experience

Popular is not a scale

One of the most popular cameras of 2025 cost about £1200.

Daily Post #2953 • January 08 2026 • Craft

AI and skill

When you practice a skill, you get better at it.

Daily Post #2952 • January 07 2026 • Experience

It doesn't work

There’s comfort in fitting into market categories.

Daily Post #2951 • January 06 2026 • Experience

Market leaders

There have never been more brands than there are today.

Daily Post #2950 • January 05 2026 • Experience

If you're Microsoft

If you’re Microsoft and you want users to use OneDrive, you have two choices:

Daily Post #2949 • January 04 2026 • Experience

Slocial networking

Whether we like it or not, people use social networks for… a lot.

Daily Post #2948 • January 03 2026 • Craft

Craft as product

What if you thought of your craft as a product, for just a moment?

Daily Post #2947 • January 02 2026 • Narrative

Here we are, right where we were

Go back twenty years, in your mind.

Daily Post #2946 • January 01 2026 • Momentum

New little habit

January first isn’t for looking back on the year we’ve had.

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