My Daily Emails

I’ve been working on a launch project for a consumer product client with an enviable situation: their product name perfectly encapsulates what it does. It’s rare gold in product marketing.

A few weeks ago, without really meaning to do it, my wife and I embarked on a mission we’ve somehow avoided for decades: buying a complete cookware set. Until now,

Hasn’t it sucked how you couldn’t buy a Kindle book directly through your iPhone app? That finally changed this week. Yesterday Amazon announced a new “Get Book” button in its

Yesterday marked the end of an era. Skype — the service that introduced millions to video calling — officially went dark after 22 years. It was one of the first

A post by neuroscientist and podcaster Andrew Huberman has been living in my head for weeks. It challenges everything we thought we knew about habit formation. Remember that old wisdom about “it

I’m in the middle of a classic startup pricing standoff. A client has developed an impressive new tech product that solves a widespread problem. The solution works beautifully, but now

Arielle — a sharp early-stage founder in Montreal and longtime list member — emailed after reading my series on biases: “I’ve read a lot about loss aversion and other status

Mayday, Mayday! I’ve got some thoughts to help your month get off to a fantastic start, even if you’ve been losing sleep over the trade war situation. The latest NielsenIQ

In 1812, Charles Redheffer unveiled what he claimed was an amazing perpetual motion machine in Philadelphia. Crowds flocked to see this miracle of engineering that seemed to operate continuously without any external