Category: Blog

At Silicon Valley Bank (SVB), a challenge emerged: how to effectively distribute valuable market insights to their audience. The solution? Our Minimum Viable Video program designed to transform SVB’s experts into confident on-camera communicators.

170 degrees for 30 seconds. This is how hot and how long a kitchen sink needs to run to pass an NYC health code inspection. The water from the sinks in Dave Chang’s restaurant Momofuku had just failed this test. A critical health code violation. And because this was not the first strike against the […]

A month ago, I ran a program for a group of Navy pilots and SEALs. My role was to teach them how to think and act like entrepreneurs so they could bring the entrepreneurial mindset back to their organization to solve problems, navigate bureaucracy, and communicate better.

What happens when you fly to Ecuador to deliver sessions in Spanish (!) and 900 people register for your sessions? You get nervous, reframe those nerves as energy, and blow people’s minds. That’s what happened when the US Embassy Quito Ecuador, Cámara de Comercio de Quito, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador, and UEM Benalcazar brought us down to teach entrepreneurs how to use video to pandemic-proof their businesses and reach global markets.

A guy became a millionaire after he founded a tractor company. He made enough money that he could indulge his taste for Ferraris. He loved those cars so much that he bought two. A white one for him and a black one for his wife. But his infatuation faded when he burned out the clutch […]

One minute you’re on top of the world, the next minute you’re pissed off at your coworkers. That’s where U2 found themselves after the success of the Joshua Tree album. The record made them global superstars…but they forgot a key idea. I mean, I get it. Expectations would be huge after an album that blew […]

​It was a joy to share stories and learnings from Minimum Viable Video, Actionworks’ flagship course, on such a big stage. Doug Wells and I talk about: how learning video changes the lives of entrepreneurs and knowledge workers cohort-based courses and David Perell’s Write of Passage reverse networking teaching entrepreneurship in Bogotá​ ​Listen here.

​She’s a Youtube star and startup entrepreneur who runs three channels that span 5 million subscribers.​ We had a delightful conversation. She’s one of those people who really nails the balance of extreme warmth and impressive ambition. It was a joy to learn from her. I like interviewing people to dig down at the earliest […]

Stanford professor Jeremy Bailenson led a large-scale study and found ways how we can finally prevent the dreaded Zoom fatigue. Let’s dive in. 1. Shrink your Zoom screen When you’re having a conversation on Zoom with one person or many, our brains process it as direct eye contact. The way you see faces on Zoom, […]

It’s a cruel irony that technology allows you to duplicate items on your to do list with a mouse click. So simple, so easy. But it doesn’t allow you—the actual doer of the work—to clone yourself. (We can clone sheep though, so there’s that. Sheep underperform on all productivity metrics, though, except when it comes […]