There’s a simple idea in finance that most people understand instinctively, even if they’ve never heard the term for it. Money today is worth more than the same amount of money later. Not because it’s larger – but because it has time to do something. It can earn interest. It can be reinvested. It can…
There’s a lot of pressure right now to be visible.Post more. Show up more. Say something every day. Stay in the feed. It’s not bad advice – it’s just very loud. And for some people who care about doing good work, telling the truth, and building something that lasts, that volume can start to feel…
How we search for and find information is changing faster than anyone expected. A few years ago, we would type a question into Google, click a few links, skim a couple of pages, and gradually find what we needed (maybe!). Today, AI jumps in and answers before anyone even clicks into a website. Your website…
With so much noise online, it’s easy to wonder: are websites even a thing anymore? Are they still relevant? Did we blink and the age of the website quietly ended while we were all busy posting, scrolling, and adapting to whatever the internet was doing this week? It would make sense if it had. Trends…
Sometimes you pull up your own website and think… who is this? Technically, there’s nothing wrong with it. It’s not broken, everything still functions fine. But as you scroll through it, you might find yourself making that face. The words are fine, the pages still load, but something’s… off. It just doesn’t quite sound like…
Outrageous Fortune isn’t the usual name for a tech company. But then again, this hasn’t been the usual road. The name comes from Shakespeare’s Hamlet: “Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, or to take arms against a sea of troubles, and by opposing end them.” To…
Q4 is a funny season. We’re looking ahead to new goals, new plans, and fresh energy for 2026. But if you’re like most entrepreneurs, you’re also carrying a backpack full of “avoided tasks” – little extra rocks you’ve been lugging around for way too long. You know exactly what I’m talking about. It’s that task…
You’ve probably heard the phrase the only constant is change. Some people say it came from the ancient Greek philosopher Heraclitus. Others argue he never used those exact words, though his surviving fragments point in that direction. He talked about rivers, for instance: you can’t step in the same river twice, because both the water…
When people picture success – in business, in creative work, in life – it’s easy to imagine those big, energized moments. The standing ovation. The product launch. The perfect post or blog that suddenly gets all the clicks. But the truth is: motivation doesn’t show up every day. It might be helpful if it did,…
Generally speaking, in theatre, most stories follow a three-act structure or format. There’s usually a beginning, a middle, and an end. Boy meets girl. Boy loses girl. Boy gets girl back – or maybe girl moves to New York without him. The finale is what gets the fanfare and applause. But there’s a lot of…
When most people think of a website, they picture a big, polished thing — with pages and menus and maybe a shopping cart. But not everything needs to be that complicated. Some of the most useful websites I’ve built lately are just one page. Simple, elegant, helpful. Nothing to log into, nothing to buy —…
Have you ever paused — just for a half second — before sending someone to your website? Not because it’s broken. Not because it’s ugly. But because… it just doesn’t feel like you. I’ve been working with authors lately, and I’ve started to notice a pattern. These are people who know how to express themselves….
When I say the word coach, what pops into your head? Maybe someone with a clipboard and a whistle yelling “Hustle!” from the sidelines. Or maybe that one person in high school who believed in you a little more than you believed in yourself. Most of us get what a coach is when it comes…
Remember when changing your phone number meant ordering new business cards, tossing the old ones, and hoping the people you actually wanted to call you noticed? Or when getting a new headshot meant a full-on photo shoot, then paying someone to reprint the company brochure? Yeah. Me too. But thankfully, we don’t live in that…
For those of you who haven’t lived through it, one of the most intense phases in the life of a theatre production is the dreaded tech week. Once a show is selected and the team’s mostly aligned on design decisions, everyone splits off to work on their part: Throughout it all, the director and stage…
Raise your hand if you’re ready for some precedented times — had your fill of the unprecedented ones? I’m right there with you. Add to that a steady stream of uncertainty — in climate, business, health — and the urge to pull a blanket over your head can be very real.And yet… resist we must….
I was talking with a friend the other day, and she was telling me that she had submitted something she had written for publication but was a little disappointed that it had been respectfully declined. She is also a theatre person and we immediately agreed it was good she had submitted because you just never…
I have had the distinct pleasure of working with emerging author Cat Jameson this summer. She is new to publishing her work (new to publishing, not writing – apparently there is quite a bit of evidence to this fact stacked up in her closet) and she is excited to have her debut novel Chasing Shadows…