Jason

We’ve been told — and taught — that mediums are neutral and content is king. You can’t say anything about “television.” The question is whether you’re watching “The Kardashians” or “The Sopranos,” “Sesame Street” or “Paw Patrol.” To say you read “books” is to say nothing at all: Are you imbibing potboilers or histories of 18th-century Europe?... See more

A story I wrote on hating camping went viral over the weekend. A friend messaged me on Saturday night to say that it was an Apple News Editor's Pick, and then Suzie Loiselle emailed with the stats shown below. I was just interviewed by a Vancouver radio station about the piece. Was this the best story I've ever written? No. But it touched a nerve... See more

Iwakan is one of my favorite Japanese phrases. It consists of three Chinese characters, 違 ( i , meaning difference, deviation), 和 ( wa , meaning harmony, peace) and 感 ( kan , meaning feeling, sense), that together form a single word that loosely translates as a ‘sense of disharmony’. In daily interactions, I use the term casually when something... See more

Most CEOs are CEOs because they started the businesses they run - not because they are abnormally smart or qualified.

Often they’re the least qualified people in the company, since they’re the only ones who didn’t go through an interview process.

“Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you.” ~ Anne Lamott

Victories attained by right thought can only be maintained by watchfulness. Many give way when success is assured, and rapidly fall back into failure.

I’ve always had this sense that if you build a container for something, you will make things to fill it. What I frequently do is try to figure out different containers. A website is a container.