WPenner's Blog

Lunarbyte is a Seattle-based design agency that creates English and Spanish websites and apps that I stumbled across via a Twitter recommendation. I like that their contact form announces a project minimum of $25k, which is an immediate filter for serious customers, setting expectations that qualit...

I stumbled across @norahsakal today and got inspired.

She's created a gif generator for simulated SMS conversations. After using it to market her own product she turned it into a stand-alone service, selling the gif outputs.

The 1-page site announcing the product has three sections: Why?, H...

I recently read an interesting series of articles by Hal Rondo¹ dealing with the emergence of consciousness from a Jungian psychology perspective. What caught my attention was how closely Hal’s description mirrored a customer experience failure that I endured. In fact, Hal’s model of the emergence...

Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance. — Samuel Johnson

I recently discovered, much to my shock, that most people believe that perseverance is the #1 source of life success. I don't believe in stick-to-it-iveness as some magical thing that transforms all bad to good, al...

Free will, a human's ability to freely decide with real consequences, is commonly held to be a real thing, even though philosophers debate it. Weirdly, our current relationship with technology is making an old prediction about the demise of free will, detailed in the Talmud, come true. More about th...

Having just finished an MBA, I\'ve been thinking about the intersection of business and politics a bit. This is a completely new field for me, so in the post below, I explore some ideas that seem connected. Not confident that the ideas land, but want to share what\'s banging around the neurons recently.

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Reading Al Simon² this week, he talked about the difference between "magic" and "magick" where magick (with a K) is a set of techniques for sending intentions into the world and receiving feedback using symbolic actions as a signal to the subconscious brain. Magick, in this sense,...

Good old Mr. Marx complained that workers could not benefit from the fruits of their labour. Customers are even more disadvantaged. Customer purchases fund companies that keep the revenue for themselves.

Since the invention of the stock market, smart customers hold stock in the companies they buy...