Crossbeam 7 Lessons learned from scaling a content machine at Crossbeam in 18 months How we built an email list of 22,000 and a steady 14% month-over-month traffic increase.
Careers The Dark Matter Influencer There is a deceptively large (and growing) quiet class of king maker.
Politics Why We Should Fight to Keep Our President Tweeting On Sept. 23rd, the President of the United States tweeted the following: Just heard Foreign Minister of North Korea speak at U.N. If he echoes thoughts of Little Rocket
Media Medium, and The Reason You Can’t Stand the News Anymore. In January, Medium founder Ev Williams announced that despite his company’s efforts to better the news industry, it would refocus. The reason? We believe there are millions of thinking
Politics The Tyranny of Facts: Being “Right” is Not Enough Most philosophical and political disagreements don’t take place in courtrooms, they take place using a series of text boxes levied against an often-anonymous opponent. Or, if in person, in
Careers The Creative World’s Bullshit Industrial Complex As editor of 99U, my inbox is (thankfully) filled with pitches of all kinds. Mainly, writers who’d like to contribute to this site and speakers who’d like to
Entrepreneurship A Behind-the-Scenes Look at the 99U Refresh 2016 marked the seventh anniversary of 99U: a website, magazine, conference and book series dedicated to helping people make their ideas happen—and the publication I’ve worked on in
Careers The Most Defensible Thing You Can Do for Your Career: Build an Audience Tell me if this has ever happened to you: A well-known person in your field loses their job with impressive company X. Deep, deep inside you feel a vague sense
Politics The “Other Side” Is Not Dumb. [Note: this post was originally published on Medium, where it received more than 3.5 million reads and selected as one of the best Medium posts of the decade.] There’
Media The Era of The RFE Publication Last year, Tyler the Creator changes the way I looked at my job. It was then, by all accounts, his group Odd Future spent the day running around the Buzzfeed
Media Pretty Much Everything I Know About the News Business Last month, venture capitalist Marc Andreessen posted what, in his view, was the future of the news business. Reactions were varied, but everyone had one. I joked that my entire
Media AxisPhilly, The William Penn Foundation, and “Old Philadelphia” On July 11, Philadelphia’s AxisPhilly, a public affairs news site bankrolled by the William Penn Foundation parted ways with its CEO Neil Budde, a move which will likely lead
Media On Impact, Startups, and Journalism Last year I sat in the audience at Behance’s 99U Conference (then called the “99% conference”) and listened to Alexis Madrigal’s lecture on what he saw as an
Media The Universe In case you missed it, we recently redesigned 99U. And by “we” I really mean Jocelyn Glei, Jackie Balzer, Eric Snowden, and John Refeno. Besides a beautiful aesthetic upgrade, the
Media The inevitable collision of journalism and everything else Most of the changes in online media and journalism have a common theme: Journalistic entities are becoming product companies, offering products that turn content into marketing. As a side effect,
