I’d love to meet and swap stories with some nonfiction authors. Join me at Il Fornaio in Burlingame at 6:30pm on Thursday, April 25, 2024. A few notes. If you plan to attend, you must RSVP using the form below. And this is Dutch Treat — each of us will be paying for their own…
I’m starting a Zoom room today at 4PM. Here’s what’s happening: A reading from a master of nonfiction writing. Discussion — how did he do it? Your questions Join me here: https://zoom.us/j/326376698 If this is useful, I’ll repeat. Hope to see you there. Put it in your calendar!
Like many of you reading this, I speak at events. Whether the invitation is paid or free, it always comes with a request to put my PowerPoint presentation into a template supplied by the event. Why? Why is this still a thing? A public speaker has a fixed number of hours to prepare for the…
Around 14,000 people came to Boston for HubSpot’s #INBOUND15 conference this week. Fourteen thousand. For a company that helps you run your Web site more effectively. What’s going on here? This is what disruption without the swagger looks like. And it ought to be a model for every startup from now on. “Inbound” is a…
A Forrester Forum, like any big event, is quite a production. As part of it, you interact with powerful people in industry, people like Peter Chernin, and that doesn’t always go exactly as planned. I’ll take you behind the scenes at one of these events that included an unexpected moment of terror. It’s September 2004,…
I’ll be in Boston Thursday, July 23 at 6PM. Come see me present the Without Bullshit ideas for the first time in any public setting. I’d like to see you there, listen, and answer your questions.