I’m thinking of stopping my regular podcast and only doing my weekly update in Newsletter form. There are a number of reasons. Far more people consume the newsletter. The podcast is actually just the newsletter content (sometimes with some opinion added). The newsletter is hard enough to get out, let alone having enough energy on Sunday to record…

Like many people I’ve been soured on ads and sponsors for my podcast and newsletter: Unsupervised Learning. If you hav a decent following it’s actually possible to make a significant living off of both sponsors and ads—and especially sponsors. At one point I was getting a couple thousand a month from just a couple of sponsors, and I…

Google Images is still best if you want to see a picture of something. But for content creators there are a number of problems. It’s not super easy to tell when you’re allowed to use an image or not, and if you care about being courteous to artists and photographers, this matters. The site is infested with stock…

This is a special, supplemental content post for site members looking back at the most popular Unsupervised Learning stories of 2017. I basically went through every newsletter and extracted the most clicked stories, and then distilled them that down to this list. How to Email Like a CEO The Future of AppSec Testing A Guided Digital Security Planning…

Many people see intelligence as a function of brain power. So if you have a bigger brain, or smart people in your family, then you’re likely to be smart yourself. I’m sure that’s true to some degree, but I think a better model is that of a computer…where you have two components working together: 1) the hardware, which…

I recently had the worst feeling that I’d been doing punctuation near quotation marks all wrong—for like 7,000 posts—since 1999. I probably have, but I can start doing doing the right thing now if I just capture the basic rules. So I did some reading and here’s my summary. If the punctuation matters, put it inside. Commas, semicolons,…

Typography is the visual component of the written word. ~ Eric Spiekermann Using good typography is an easy way to upgrade your writing. While you can do a lot to make it beautiful, this short guide will show you how to avoid major mistakes that detract from your writing. Doing these five things will make your content far…

I do a weekly show called Unsupervised Learning where I curate thousands of stories down into a 30 minute podcast and newsletter. To be able to consume that much content, I’ve spent some significant amount of time messing with Feedly to get it to display feeds the way I want. What I’d really like is the ability to…

I listen to a lot of audio, both in my car and while just walking about, and I split my time as around 2/3 audiobooks and 1/3 podcasts. There are probably around 10 total podcasts that I listen to, but there are 3 that I try to never miss. 1. Riskybusiness, by Patrick Gray Risky Business is an…

I’ve been working on my new site design and was eager to show off my new typography, so I took a screenshot of the same content in Medium right next to the same content in my new site theme (see above). Remarkably, and to my utter dismay, most people said they liked the left one because, “it was…