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Bottom of the barrel

I was so close to sending this back to the rando cold email (from someone with arguably one of the most punchable faces I’ve seen this year) trying to sell his amazing SEO services to help fix our topical authority:

Spoiler: no one really knows how topical authority works
Screenie from https://ahrefs.com/blog/topical-authority/
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Small wins

I lasted 11 days into 2023 without wanting to stick an axe into anyone from the other team at work.

It’s going to be a long month.

Happy New Year everyone!

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Petty

Over two decades in tech and I’m still running into insecure manbabies who are petty and whiny as they are unkind. Just to be fair, I’ve run into the female equivalent as well but that’s currently at a grand total of one (maybe two?).

These people with small crayon energy ending up in management roles are the reason why we absolutely cannot have nice things in the world.

We collectively suck and need to do better.

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Designers and developers have one thing in common

And that is their collective hate towards people in marketing. I finally understand why.

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Conversations with another CD

SY: Design skills are translatable, just need to have a lot of common sense AND always design with a purpose
SY: Design is not guessing

Me: I threw the designer’s credibility out the door when she said she’s pretty good about designing without content

Note: also the same man who told me to straight up lower my expectations 🫠

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Imposter Syndrome

I’ve noticed that I get very fidgety when my title gets brought up even though I don’t believe in titles (read: I don’t care what your title is, please just get your shit done).

My current title has the word “director” in it and it just feels odd every time someone else uses it.

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Online security training

Cybersecurity expert on phishing: “Did you receive the email at an unusual time? If you receive an email outside of normal business hours, this is a red flag.”

Guess everyone in ad agencies are potential scammers.

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It’s a curse of some sort

Why are all the people who own online (expensive) jewelry stores exceptionally difficult to work with?

It’s just this one specific niche.

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2018 one thing a day

Day 25: Putting up with bad millennials programmers

Especially the ones who talk so much smack but have nothing to back their shit up with when everything starts falling apart.

Trash.

2021 edit–
I still love telling this story about the shady techbros (words like shocking and appalling come to mind).
Something you’d have to hear in-person purely for the hand gestures and facial expressions.

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2018 one thing a day

Day 20: It’s been a long time since I’ve missed weekends

After the week I’ve had, I just want to roll around and do absolutely nothing.

That literally translates to, “I’m going to roll around and compulsively check Delta and cry over all the potential mooning coins I don’t have fiat to buy.”

Such is life.

2021 edit–
The beginning of my crypto affliction.