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Email Marketing Best Practices: Earn the Next Open
A practical email marketing system built on permission, authentication, relevance, accessible design, clean data, honest measurement, and easy exits.
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What a Visual Map of Malcolm Gladwell’s Structure Taught Me
A 2023 AI-assisted close-reading experiment turned narrative sequence into a visual map—and revealed where data helps, where judgment begins, and what writers can learn without copying a voice.
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Gifted, Part 2: The People Who Changed My Direction
From Computer City and Linksys to Flash, agency life, illustration and a return to school, this is the story of how other people’s examples became my education.
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Gifted, Part 1: When the Label Did Not Fit
I grew up inside gifted programs while believing I was the dumb one. The real education came from pressure, curiosity, mistakes, and older students whose abilities did not fit neatly inside school.
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The Blockchain AI Prototype That Taught Me to Distrust Plausible Code
A 2023 experiment with decentralized AI and blockchain became a practical lesson: a coherent concept, plausible code and a working system are three different things.
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What 12 Years of Long Distance Taught Us About Building a Shared Life
My wife and I spent twelve years engaged between Southern California and Taiwan. What sustained us was not constant romance, but a shared ordinary life.
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How We Built XFX by Turning the Box Into the Brand
A firsthand account of how audience knowledge, distinctive 3D packaging, an engineered X-shaped box and a defended brand voice helped transform XFX—and what success later taught me about questioning the system.
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Tech Demos Sold the Future Before Games Could Deliver It
A personal history of GPU technology demos—from Valley of Ra and Dawn to Unity’s Enemies—and why their best marketing lesson still matters: make an invisible capability visible, memorable and honestly demonstrated.
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How to Build a Tech Demo Gamers Can Trust
A modern tech demo should create wonder and leave enough evidence for gamers to understand, test and trust what the technology actually changes.
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The One-Time Coupon: A Boundary for Working With Friends and Family
The one-time coupon turns a professional favor into one thoughtful, clearly defined deliverable—protecting both the work and the relationship.
