When it's mixtape season hustle is the strategy. You give away a superior product purposefully to build awareness of your brand and connections with your customers.
Mixtape Drake.
Author: mikalfm
Go DJ
The Summer I Learned the Hustler’s Yes. How I became a house party DJ in one summer with one turntable. This is a tribute to Florida A&M, the castle on the hill, and the one summer my love for hip hop became more than a hobby, and to the friends who pushed me there. Warning—if [...]
Coin Flip Decisions
Coin flip decisions and where to find them
2019 Essays In Review
A review of 2019's essays on Product Intuition, Leading in the Modern Workplace, and Personal Development
Product Intuition, A Prelude
Product Intuition is the skill of cultivating luck to finding and developing “non-consensus and right” products and product strategies. And I'm writing a book about it.
The Maladjusted Leader
To become a better leader, become better at managing stress.
Lottery Tickets Are Bad Investments… For Everyone Except the Winners
On the importance of placing high upside bets
To grow your career: Create less crap. Be more awesome.
Success is preparation. As a result of preparation, we recognize opportunities when they come near, like old acquaintances, familiar with a lot of catching up to do. Chase, Chancy and Creativity refers to this as Type III Chance: Chance III involves a special receptivity, discernment, and intuitive grasp of significance unique to one particular recipient. [...]
Sometimes I rhyme slow, sometimes I rhyme quick
“When you use big words people don’t understand, it makes them feel dumb, and they don’t like that.” While this time it was explicit, I've faced the thrust of the feedback throughout my career. Stop using big words. I never did, and here is why.
The Limits of PowerPoint. . . Reflecting on Tufte’s Presenting Data and Information Talk
Nearly a decade ago I attended Edward Tufte’s Presenting Data and Information. I recently came across my notes for the talk, and decided to publish online as some of the takeaways, particularly the introduction of a "Story Canvas" had a significant impact on my information communication style in the decade sense. The key principle of [...]
