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Drums: How To Play A Groove In 13/8
If you play music, specifically drums, you’ll appreciate this. That being said, I have had some crazy time signatures to play along to. This one is three measures of seven followed by a measure of 6 or you could say 14 and then 13 But seriously though… nobody’s gunna shake their booty to 13/8.
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GDPR Friendly Implementation of Google Analytics
If you haven’t dove head first into the ever-changing world of data regulations, data compliance, and general data management you might be feeling a little overwhelmed when it comes to confidently tracking any kind of insights or analytics on your user’s behavior or interactions with your digital platforms. My anxiety started to accruing at a […]
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On Growing A Team (or business) As Lean As Possible
Back in the twenty-teens the growth hacking/lean startup approach took over. Some of the overly aggressive tactics from those times were dropped relatively quickly but many of them were adopted as standard best practices but never really talked about in the same context again. Earlier this week I had someone ask me about when to […]
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Making A Beast of Yourself
He who makes a beast of himself relieves himself the pain of being a man. Hunter S. Thompson I wouldn’t say I feel the “pain” of being a (hu)man but there’s definitely a lot to process on a daily basis normally — not to mention in times of chaos on uncertainty. This is why I make sure to […]
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Album Art – Creative “Process”
Sometime around 2016, before “The Force Awakens” was released I started on a new music project with my long time (musical) partner in crime Tom Hummer. Several years prior, when we were in a band together called Thoughts of Crossing, we had made a joke about starting a Star Wars-themed band called “The Han Solo […]
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Go + CoBlocks for WordPress
When I was still in the Director of Client Delivery role, I had the chance to oversee a really cool project that we worked on with GoDaddy. The idea was to build a theme framework that leveraged Gutenberg and GoDaddy’s recently acquired CoBlocks, ultimately producing a very flexible theme that makes it easy for anyone […]
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The Ninja Course
We recently-ish moved to Urbandale, IA to save my wife from an unnecessary commute. At our old house, we had several large trees in the backyard that we used to set up some fun things for our kids. The new house was an upgrade in many ways, but we don’t have any trees, so we […]
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Tracking Brightcove Analytics With GTM via The Data Layer
I recently discovered that while Brightcove has a lot of documentation available for a wide variety of topics, they don’t really dig into limitations of each topic or the specifics in terms of how to really get them working. They do have a default connection to Google Analytics BUT it’s all done via API so […]
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Google News Initiative Ad Revenue Lab
Almost a year ago, 10up was approached with an idea to run a lab to help evaluate, test, and establish a set of best practices for hyper-local publishers to optimize their revenue. (10up’s post here) One of the coolest challenges of this project for me was to step away from the normal project/platform delivery processes […]