In a recent webinar hosted by Austin-based middle school Esports Academy, industry experts discussed how tailored and personalized education can benefit students — helping them learn 2x-5x faster than traditional schools. One such expert was Harvard-trained psychiatrist Dr. Alok Kanojia, who explained how video games are inherently designed to match…

Most of us have fallen into the “Subscription Trap” where a service will offer a free trial over some time — 7 days, 30 days, etc., but we forget and start paying for a service after the free trial ends. After reading this article, this should never happen to you…

Grandfathered-in perks are an often-underutilized benefit of early adoption in the software-as-a-service sphere. As startups or tech platforms try to gain adoption and enter the mainstream, they’ll sometimes give users generous perks in service of an aggressive user adoption strategy.

Turns out the most successful marketers are the scrappiest. I recently wrote about how many industry practitioners overcomplicate marketing. In this blog post, I’d like to suggest that content creators are the best marketers. They’re scrappy, experimental, early adopters, and know how to work the social platform algorithms in their favor. …

Bullcr*p Marketing Doesn't Work Anymore by David V. Kimball Audio transcript of my latest blog post: Bullcr*p Marketing Doesn't Work Anymorepodcasters.spotify.com Marketing is getting attention from the right eyeballs at the right time. No need to overcomplicate the concept itself; it’s surprisingly simple. Throughout the years, marketing has gained a negative connotation. For some, marketing is manipulative, materialistic, or misleading. …

Something I’ve been thinking about a lot recently has been: how do we find common ground with people with whom we fundamentally disagree? One aspect we all share is being human. There are certain universal truths about the human condition we must accept. For example: Humans are finite: we have…

Humble beginnings I built my first website in 2006. And by that I mean, I used a free web hosting service to publish my site for me. There were very few templates from which to choose, and intrusive ads I didn’t like ran on my website constantly. The service I used…

As of July, Windows 11 has been available to test as a preview release to anyone included in the Windows Insider Program. While it’s in its earliest stages, we don’t know for sure how much will really change from now until launch, other than the biggest news items like Android…

It’s fair to say this year has been full of unexpected events. Even a passing remark about these cases will likely get at least 1 angry mob to come after you, especially with an amplified voice online. So I’m going to do it, tackle both religion and politics in one…