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  • The job hunter’s heartbreak

    Job hunting and dating are about the same. You prepare, you give your best, and sometimes you just get ghosted. How companies handle it says everything about their brand.

  • The Google icons redesign

    Google changed the Workspace icon shapes but kept the colour cues users have relied on for years, and that single choice is what made the transition almost invisible in functional terms.

  • The Pope’s view on AI

    AI is a powerful tool that can advance humanity or wage new forms of war. What it cannot replace is judgment, and that is what we should never delegate to a machine or its makers.

  • Communication vs. Politics

    The threshold for speaking should be proportional to your preparation to be heard. When the facts are clear and silence would be complicity, speaking up is not optional. It is the minimum.

  • Ferrari Luce: a brilliant case study

    The Ferrari Luce lost Ferrari $4 billion in market cap on launch day. It also made the whole world stop and talk. That’s not a failure. That’s a masterclass in brand disruption. Let me tell you why.

  • The fundamentals of copywriting

    Forget the formulas. The best copywriting education I have come across lives in six books. They changed how I think about desire, attention, and what is really going on in a reader’s head.

  • Error messages are opportunities

    Error messages are the most overlooked copy in any product. Get them wrong and users feel blamed and lost. Get them right and you build trust exactly when it matters most.

  • 404 page: a branding tool

    Your 404 page has your user’s undivided attention. Here’s how three brands turned a broken link into a branding moment worth remembering, even when they go offline.

  • CTAs that convert seamlessly

    A call to action is a micro-promise, not just a label. Learn why three words can double your conversions, and what Google and Going figured out before most writers did.

  • The Startup disillusionment

    I left 14 years in Silicon Valley corporations for a fintech startup. Four months later, I walked out the door. It was a hard lesson in why culture beats everything else.

  • My copywriting for Deadpool

    I knew nothing about Deadpool. I studied the character from scratch, wrote 3 approved copy pieces, and helped close a critical quarter. No portfolio saved, but proud of it to this day.

  • The 80% road to perfection

    Perfectionism kills momentum. The 80/20 rule shows you how to get 80% of the results from 20% of the effort, and how good enough, done now, always beats perfect, done never.