Archive for 'Nickel and Diming'

What Would Don Draper Do? – The Oatmeal

via theoatmeal.com This pretty much sums up how I solve ALL my problems. I mean if I were to edit this flowchart and replace “Peggy” with “My Wife” and “Pete Campbell” with “A dude named Carl” this would be spot on.

My SEMCON 2009 Presentation – Twisted Twitter Tactics #semcon09

Here are the slides of my SEMCON 2009 Presentation: Twisted Twitter Tactics, how to turn Twitter into a mega traffic channel overnight. Twisted Twitter Tactics View more presentations from mikevillar. To recap: For businesses, Twitter is effective as a Marketing/Lead Generation platform only if it is used to build trust for your brand. Start with [...]

Injun fud

Last weekend, I went out and took my team of 5 out to lunch because, apparently, unbeknown to me, good managers are supposed to take some time out of the office with their directs once in a while to bond. Or in my case, be all awkward around each other and shit because in the [...]

Crackberry: The irresistable force paradox

I get this nagging feeling that my employer is trying to force me into a painful transition from slack daddy extraordinaire (and party boy emeritus) to a real employee, not just someone who manifests himself as an unreasonably high salary in monthly accounting ledgers; eats up the company’s bandwidth by downloading entire Gossip Girl episodes [...]

Mike Villar: Bullshit Machine

Mike Villar: Bullshit Machine from Mike Villar on Vimeo. My company’s CEO, armed with a video camera, ambushed me while I was dicking around on Facebook and asked me what I was working on. Surprisingly unfazed and on my toes, my response was–arguably–the worst, most badly-delivered bullshit spat out by anyone who has ever lived. [...]