Category: Ponderings

  • Looking to change your world? Give Poke a chance

    Self help books usually don’t. The problem is they give you a plan that you didn’t create, to reach a goal you didn’t define, via methods you don’t normally use. If you’re struggling to lose weight or make a million dollars, it’s reassuring to have a safe, proven path laid out before you. But if this sort…

  • Bland Romance – Losing a client but regaining some perspective

    Recently I’ve become a bit of a hypocrite in the advice I give about crafting your online brand. Fortunately it recently cost me a client, which helped sort me out. In general, my advice on this topic goes something like: Show your personality online, and don’t try to play it safe. Stand out, and you…

  • And… ACTION!

    This blog is an endowment exercise, where I act the part of a social media enthusiast, with a background in improv comedy, and attempt to merge those concepts into an ongoing scene of amusement, philosophy, and education. Under intense mental shock-treatment (whether they knew it or not) from the likes of Havi Brooks, Naomi Dunford,…