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A collection of 193 posts written on Medium from 2013 to present. Covering design, technology, marketing, and the occasional rant about how things should work.

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2025

25 Posts

It’s Not AI That’s Failing — It’s Corporate America

Build Small, Win Big: The Superpower Era

I Feel It Like a Drumbeat in My Sternum — Nothing Will Ever Be the Same Again

5 Best AI SEO Audit Tools for 2025 (and Why Generic Audits Are Killing Your Rankings)

huh. I don't think I did, intentionally I mean, but it absolutely is.

How to Turn a Sales Call Into a Sales Page

How I Turn YouTube Advice Into Instant, Personalized Coaching

Build the unscalable on Purpose

Prompt and Pray, or Build and Win?

If you’re trying to grow an audience — or build something real — you’ll need to talk about what…

The AI-First Content Engine Manual

Shipping Fast, Feeling Messy

AI’s Real Superpower: Making Things Make Sense

𝗔𝗜 𝗵𝗮𝘀 𝗸𝗶𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗱 “𝗴𝗼𝗼𝗱 𝗲𝗻𝗼𝘂𝗴𝗵”𝗺𝗮𝗿𝗸𝗲𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴.

The Two Men Who Taught Me More Than Any Modern Guru Ever Could

The Price of Quality in a “Good Enough” Market

Just Be You, People Will Dig It

The Day I Learned That Selling Isn’t About Selling

The 70% Solution: Why Good Enough Terrifies Me

The Permission You Never Needed

The Hidden Cost of Living Someone Else’s Life

The Power of Radical Focus (When Everything Screams ‘Do More’)

Why Great Businesses Push Refunds (And Why You Should Too)

Stop Downloading Productivity Apps

Stop Letting Your Calendar Run Your Life

2024

27 Posts

Taking What You Know and Making Money With It

Where’s Your Attention Going?

Stop Viewing and Start Making

Marketing is an Always Activity

Make Yourself Unfireable

Is your website secretly repelling customers?

Don’t Be a Dick

We did, didn't we. :) Anytime brother, anytime.

No one gives a shit about you

You Don’t Start at the Finish Line

AI is Nothing Without You

Shut Up and Listen: A Counter-Intuitive Path to Success

Don’t Mumble

Better Together: Why Marketing and Product Need Each Other

The Secret Salesperson in You: How Every Word Matters

Stop Polishing Turds: Fix Your Message Before Your Visuals

When Gut Feeling Trumps a Month’s Work

Are you building an audience or just renting one?

Why Great Writing is Your Ultimate Superpower

Balancing Act: How to Influence Clients Without Overstepping

Cut the Fluff: How to Nail Your Story in Just a Few Sentences

The Story of You

Confessions of an Advertising Man

The Moment That Changed My Marketing Mindset Forever

Little Things Really Do Make a Big Difference

Building is Better than Buying

Fuck Cold Plunges and The Promise of Easy Riches

2023

7 Posts

A Guide to Launching Ideas That Resonate | Kerry Morrison

The Unexpected Secret to Success: It’s Not What You Think

Master the Art of Writing Copy that Sizzles and Sells | Kerry Morrison

The ABCs of Writing Copy That Sells Like Crazy | Kerry Morrison

The Hidden Formula to Writing Copy that Converts | Kerry Morrison

Heatmaps: Skyrocket Conversions with Compelling Copy

How to Test Your Headlines for Better Engagement

2021

3 Posts

Founder 101: The one piece of advice you need to hear

Have You Ever Wanted to Market in a More Authentic Way?

Using Storytelling to connect with prospective students

2020

1 Posts

Tales of you

2019

16 Posts

Man, with every piece your writing is getting stronger and stronger. Well done my brother.

Marketing Lessons From the 20th Century

Well fucking said. 😉

How do you regard your life?

Build the Things You Want, Even if They Won’t Make Money

Are you happy being stuck in the middle?

Hmm, that’s an interesting challenge.

That’s amazing.

Marketing 101: Do Unto Others

Make Me a Fan For Life

Really hit the nail on the head with this one.

Startup 101: Start With Your Story

I think I made the argument that it was profit and growth over all else, and that’s what’s skewed…

Most companies hate their customers

Of course not every single company out there has antipathy towards it’s customers, I’ve worked for…

Figure Out Your Damn Story Already

2018

84 Posts

Love it…thank you for sharing that.

Couldn’t agree more.

The Power of the Word “Why”

Still Hiring People Based on Their Resume? Stop.

Pocket Casts: The Best Podcast App for Android

You’d think that later in life, when we’ve actually accumulated the knowledge and experience to…

Bourdain.

Thanks bud, really appreciate all the support.

I actually think we think similar things, so I definitely hear what you’re saying.

It’s The Experience Dummy: The New Way to Build a Great Company

There is certainly some validity to that argument, no doubt the savvier among us benefit from…

Dear Media, Are You Willing to Help Us?

Selling Anything Successfully Comes Down To This One Thing

I think that every company out there would like to collect this data, it can be invaluable, if only…

That’s such a good way to put it…that short term satisfaction, followed by the inevitable fall from…

Congrats man, nothing beats hanging your own shingle.

Glad you liked and thanks for the feedback.

Anyone Saying You Can Have What You Want is a Liar

So How Good Is Your Memory, Really?

Far too much cogent thinking here. ;)

Ever see this post from Mark Manson?

Inside Amazon’s Moves to Know Everything About You

The use of pixels is of course well known.

Who is telling you that Facebook has piles of personal data on people without Facebook accounts?

Every single person entering the work force should read How to Win Friends and Influence People.

How Much is Your Privacy Worth To You?

I was listening to a podcast last week, where Alan Alda was the guest and talking about his work…

Love the post, and would sum it up in two words “ Be Genuine”.

Oh but we absolutely did agree to share that data.

Hessie Jones I don’t disagree at all, there is no doubt that data can absolutely be used for evil…

We’re So Close To a Better Future, If Only We’d Shut Up About Privacy

Expert Advice On How To Begin Transforming Your Brand Into Something Inspirational — Vol 2

Your piece is great, yet while I don’t disagree with the need for more transparency and better data…

I think, again, that the bigger point is that entire organizations need to start tackling the…

There is an argument to be made that instead of trying to find ways to make ads more effective, or…

You know me, I’ll read anything you mention. Link me up.

What’s Old is New Again

The real truth about Amazon

Curious, given their losing the plot, what you think of this…

Great piece, you nailed it.

You’ve always been the product

Doing this one thing will revolutionize your sales and marketing.

Aren’t you tired of wasting your time?

Do you think that level of brand loyalty will continue in an Amazon centric world of customized…

I absolutely agree that people are publishing listicles and top ten lists that have merit, for me…

An absolutely reasonable argument and I hear you.

Here here.

Made me think of the Steve Jobs & Dropbox story, his telling them ( whether it was a ploy or not )…

Perhaps you’re the perfect medium member, in demographic and interest graph? 😃

Without specifically saying so, you’ve highlighted how well we as human beings respond to a dialog…

How long until we stop predicting the fall of Apple?

I’ve had a regular rant, over the past few years, that advertising had in general become simply a…

We get so caught up with defining new solutions, coming up with new angles to attack these…

Faux exodus aside, if you were to start a new company and could choose any spot in the world to do…

Great advice, but I think you missed one key component; Ask questions.

Isn’t it funny how much experience shapes us?

The power of habit is still something ( despite how much it’s discussed on Medium ) that doesn’t…

Appreciate that, truly.

One of my favorite photos all time.

3 Things Every Founder Needs to Hear

Dude. Nice write up, read the whole thing before I saw that it was you.

It’s the little things I tell yah.

Only thing I disagree with is the idea of amazon as monopoly in retail.

Snapchat, your time is up.

A thousand times yes.

Yes. Having even a modicum of consideration for each other would make all of us so much happier.

Ben is leagues above what I put out, I’m not remotely qualified to dig deep like he does, nor would…

I dig this take.

How could we all be so wrong?

Did you happen to come across anything more on how well Dalio’s search is proceeding based on his…

I’ve been going through this same switch since November and I cannot believe how happy I am with…

An Apple a Day

As someone who is going through the same transition, I find it fascinating that we’d have similar…

I'm glad it made some sense. ;)

No matter how many businesses I walk into, or work with, it never ceases to amaze me how few actual…

So how'd it turn out?

My Next Guest Needs no Introduction

AI Does Not Fucking Exist

Amazing, let me know if you enjoy it.

Doe's sharing this link work? I wasn't going to make it 100% public just yet.

Don’t even very me started on how poor the experience is across almost all retail these days when…

Dope, let me know what you think.

I was hating life without an Apple Watch too, post getting a pixel 2 xl, I picked up a Ticwatch S a…

A Mobile Life

2017

3 Posts

Stay strong brother.

Far too many of us forget this last part, far too many.

Knock em dead my friend.

2016

6 Posts

So they’re exceptionally well designed and manufactured, the battery life is decent and with the…

This. This I like a lot.

Certain facts in this story have been changed to better fit with a narrative decided on by the…

Standing on a milk crate adds 27.2% more legitimacy to any argument. Fact.

You my friend, should read this.

**Slow clap**

2015

20 Posts

Thing come from — minor edit. ;)

Love it man, truly.

Appreciate the response sir, discussion and openness is the only way change happens.

My man, I’m always up for debating issues and I absolutely respect your opinion and while I get…

Sir, a handful of some of my favourite people work in your agency and I’ve experienced your work in…

Seems like a another world…sigh.

Very well said sir.

Welcome to my new world my friend…;)

Sir, have you tried the email app Spark for iOS?

Eight Years Ago Today, Apple Changed Everything

Making Sense of the Nonsensical

Slow clap my friend, slow clap. Well done.

Tough call sir, I also loathe email, but I do appreciate having my preferred content brought to the…

Utterly heart wrenching and inspirational. Fantastic find sir.

Looking forward to seeing this in action, congrats on the launch.

I fail to understand how the media companies jumping aboard Instant haven’t looked back at the very…

You need to watch this.

Couple of extras

No Future To Speak Of

Told you I’d read this…

2013

1 Posts

Welcome to the bank of Apple