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Incredibly Difficult and Pointlessly Complicated

In 2012, I started a dorky side project, teaching weekend classes on how to get more traffic to your website from search engines.

2023↗

Burning the Boats: Going All-In on a Side Project

In 2017, I quit arguably the greatest job in the world, managing search engine optimization at Airbnb, to go all-in on my side project, a digital marketing training course called ClickMinded.

2019↗

A Six-Figure Side Project

Hey! There is an update to this story, which you can find in a more recent blog post, here.

2014↗

The Hard Refresh

An occasional newsletter with ideas, tools, and a surprisingly strong meme game.

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