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22 Ways To See The City

Words have the power to change how we see things and how we think. Over these past couple turbulent and transformative years, I’ve been among many who have been seeing the world anew, and I’ve been collecting these ideas, these lenses, that allow for a new way of seeing our city.

January 13, 2022

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A Few Things I’m Curious About In 2022

One of my favorite self-descriptions is a “polymath” — basically somebody who is interested in a lot of different things. Maybe it’s a byproduct of flipping through encyclopedia volumes as a bored kid just before the internet swallowed time and information as a whole, or maybe it’s some deep desire to be more like the similarly-named, and arguably most famous, renaissance man of Benjamin Franklin.

January 3, 2022

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Some advice for 22 year old me (or you) starting an agency

When we sold our marketing agency this year, I spent some time digging through old files and found some photos from those first, fresh-faced days starting out a decade ago. The kid staring back at me was taking those unknown, early steps on an exciting journey that took us from the corner ice cream shop to the Super Bowl — it was awesome in the truest sense of the word.

October 25, 2021

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The things we didn’t do

It’s an old truth that you often regret most the things you didn’t do, but the inverse is also true for me. Looking back over ten years of building, running, and eventually selling an agency I find that the times we refused, refrained, or rejected are ultimately some of the decisions I’m most proud of.

September 1, 2021

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We Gave Everybody an Oculus Quest 2 — Here are Our Notes

2020 being what 2020 was, we couldn’t hold our usual end-of-year team festivities. So, in an age when we’ve all been grounded and isolated, we decided what better team gift than a way for us to explore new worlds, get moving, and connect with loved ones — safely. The solution: gift every member of our team an Oculus Quest 2 for the holidays.

January 14, 2021

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