On Valentine’s Day of 2019 I sent the first Random newsletter to about 500 people. The one you are reading now is issue number 100, sent to 9,371 subscribers. Every other Thursday for almost three years. Hard to believe. First, thank you for subscribing. It means a lot that I don’t just write these as inner monologues. […]
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I had a dream last night. My wife and I were at a Lizzo concert. We had good seats – front row, left side. As Lizzo came out for her finale, she played one song (About Damn Time). Before the next song, she walked over to me and asked me if I wanted to be
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Practicing with Artificial Intelligence WARNING: This is a very long section on me practicing with AI tools. I’ve become fascinated with this and thought I’d share some results with you. A little over a year ago, my friend and Marketing AI Institute founder Paul Roetzer told me about a new artificial intelligence design tool that would be
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Support Me Helping Kids Who Need Speech Therapy Next month I’m participating in Silence for Speech 2022. For 12 hours (yes, 12 hours) yours truly WILL NOT BE SPEAKING to raise money (and awareness) for kids who desperately need speech therapy and can’t afford it. My wife is very excited about this 12 hour period. Anything
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From Joe: This Q&A is courtesy of Jerome Knyszewski, which was part of an interview series. Thanks to Jerome for helping to make this happen. Can you tell us a bit about your ‘backstory’ and how you got started?I was overeducated and underexperienced upon graduating with my master’s degree from Penn State University. After sending
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My color is orange. It’s literally the only color I wear. My foundation is named after it. If you go into my bedroom closet, it looks like the briefcase scene from Pulp Fiction. If you are here, you might be wondering why. In 2005 I was swimming with my two children (then ages four and
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Where Am I? It’s been a crazy travel week for the Pulizzi’s. As you know from my last newsletter, we attended Jim McDermott’s funeral and life celebration last week in North Carolina. On Saturday we headed to Minneapolis to meet some close friends at Valleyfair amusement park. Our oldest (a huge roller coaster fan) met us there from
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