Get your claps, views, and followers — My wife plays a game on her iPad almost every night. It’s like Tettris but you can blow up the blocks. There are bombs, washing machines(?), candy canes, and a cartoon bear staring at you from a corner of the screen as you play. I’ve seen her play this game…

I’ve been in the “productivity” software space since about 2018. The companies I worked for include Workzone, ClickUp, and Friday.app, Range, and now Tettra (though this one is a knowledge base). I’m not a productivity expert by any means, but there’s one thing that I’ve found to be universally true. …

Add creator skills to a college education — One-third of kids between 8 and 12 want to be YouTube stars. Playing the odds, that won’t happen. It’s akin to kids in the past wanting to be an NBA player or movie star. Only a few will make it. But there’s a difference now… The tools, skills, and abilities…

Don’t go halfway with a half-page. — I make my to-do list and take notes on a legal pad. In the past, I tried and used a ton of planners. The ones with little blocks for your meetings, the goal projections, the personal affirmations. Those may work for others, but I felt confined by those requirements. I…

Give your writing a chance before you shut it down — With algorithm changes, AI text, and just plain laziness, it’s going to be harder to make it. That’s what they all say. Your writing has to have more kick, passion, and authenticity. Otherwise, it won’t get traction, it won’t get indexed. How do you break through? The main purpose of…

How to actually get value from your notes — Look, I don’t have an incredible note-taking course or a system with a ton of YouTube videos. There are way too many people already doing that. What I do have is a master’s degree in English and the need to take a ton of notes for everything from meetings to…

It started simply enough, as all new obsessions do. One simple tweet. Then a click. My Twitter friend Bryan Harvey posted something with a grid. It was a puzzle featuring my favorite sport, the NBA. HoopGrids? Say what? I quickly clicked over and realized it’s like your own personal…

While my SEO friends are keeping a close eye on how AI impacts Google search results, there’s another massive hurricane brewing that could alter Google’s business: a monopoly ruling. Google goes to court On the eve of a major antitrust trial - and its 25th birthday - the company is bracing for a fightwww.platformer.news “…The Google case is almost certainly the most consequential US government lawsuit against a tech company since the Justice Department sued…

When I taught English at a community college, we always had to have the “talk.” No not about that and not even about content warnings, but about the big W. Wikipedia. These were adults for whom English was often their second language, or they were trying to make a career…