Your new product is ready to roll out. You’ve marked Launch Day with a big red X on your calendar. So when’s the right moment — nay, the best moment — to send a launch day sales email to your list? ANSWER: On Launch Day. Big red X, remember? ..……

On Catalan independence, Sunday’s referendum, and one person’s emotional experience of being here. — [PLEASE NOTE: This piece was written and published two days before the referendum.] I’ve come a long way from willful ambivalence. At this point, I honestly think the idea of an independent Catalonia has the potential to be something great. I’m disgusted with the Spanish government — I already knew…

A friend once asked me if I enjoyed writing. “Obviously. I love writing. That’s why I’m a writer.” He made a face. “But, like, do you actually enjoy it? Because I love coming up with ideas and even structuring them, but the concrete act of writing is the worst. …

I’m biting my fingernails to shreds as I write this. It’s the fourth draft since I hit publish on my first article. Said drafts have spanned the art of consciousness to the meaning of life. How very deep. And none of it is worth publishing. Or maybe it is. It’s…

I’ve spent a good chunk of today investigating why that might be. It’s not the easiest thing to Google; most of what’s there is clickbait listicles re: “How often should you change your career?” I feel certain I’m not the only one who entertains the urge to reinvent herself fairly…

It’s time to upgrade your selfie game, people. No longer is it permissible to simply pretend you woke up like ducklips.

I’d been working on the Content team at Appszoom for a year and a half when we decided we had to take a different approach to organizing apps. Basically, Appszoom crawls both the App Store and the Play Store, aggregating the dual oceans of data and plopping them into our…

Perhaps the greatest contributing factor to my quality of life as an American expat in Spain has been my proximity to and frequenting of the neighborhood mercado. There is no American equivalent of these large indoor markets packed with independent vendors. Sure, bigger cities have markets with varying stalls, CSA…

A Practical Guide For Any Marketing Folks Thinking About Riding The Beast — I originally wrote this material as a guide for the Appszoom content team to get started with reddit. I’m already a redditor in my spare time (read: all the time), so it’s blindingly obvious to me that there’s huge potential to meaningfully connect with tons of people, really quickly. This…