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The area of SEO/inbound I’m most passionate about is the intersection between the customer journey, content strategy and information architecture. I’m interested in how you plan and operate large websites that consistently address user and business needs. IBM is a big company. We have hundreds of products across hardware, software and cloud. We have a large consulting business. To be able to systematically, and consistently, deliver on the goals of user and business value (which is a big work in progress), we needed to create scalable strategies and methods that worked across IBM’s entire portfolio.

📢 They Said What?! 📊 Week 13 Team Rankings (6A-1A) GASO 100: 2025 Player Rankings 📝 Movers & Shakers: Notable 2024 Rankings Movement Updated Regional Power Rankings 🙋‍♂️Familiar Faces: TX College Standouts 👔 Staff Picks: Stock Risers 2025’s Best of the Rest (A-Z) More talk about the importance of practice and routine for building success. As a former coach, it’s exactly the message I would want instilled into my players. Consistency is 95% of the battle in terms of leveling up your game.

1× 0:00 -1:09:39 Audio playback is not supported on your browser. Please upgrade.Joey Devine and I are back with the latest Top Chef post-mortem podcast, on the Top Chef Wisconsin finale! (Which actually took place on a boat in Aruba). We actually recorded most of this after having watched every part of the show except for the last five minutes in which they declared a winner, and then had to go back and finish the podcast after the winner was declared.

Colin here. I re-watched Top Gun on a flight recently with some pretty good headphones. For the first time, I paid close attention to the anthemic theme song that kicks off the credits and then quickly blasts into another track (Danger Zone), once the catapult propels the F-14 Tomcat off of the flight deck. It was fun to listen to the composition intently: it’s an interesting piece of music; there’s some dubby echos on the TR-808 drum track, dark synth bells (Yamaha DX7 synth presets!

Every year I do a list of my favourite books to inspire those in need of Christmas present ideas. This year, though, nearly all the reading I’ve done has been research for my own book on the state of British politics (which is almost finished and should be out in the second half of 2024). So I decided to do a special list of my top ten books on the topic.

In a world made for hares, spend time feeding your inner tortoise. Created by author Brooke McAlary (Slow, Care and Destination Simple) The Tortoise is an online community where we explore and experiment with all things slow. Over 4,000 subscribers Not right nowncG1vNJzZmiaoqS8rLHMnJilmaKue7TBwayrmpubY7CwuY4%3D

The Tortured Poets Department is a concept album based on the life of Sylvia Plath & Ted Hughes. Naturally Swift weaves in her own experiences (even specific details) but ultimately the songs are not about Swift's ex's individually or in sum total, the arc of the album is Plath's life. If you truly want to understand this album you'll need to read Plath & Hughes. Swift's mastery is not singularly for music, but encompasses poetry and literature as well.

NEW STANDARD DISCLAIMER: This newsletter aggressively spoils things. As a proud member of the Middle Aged Fuckers Club, I spend an inordinate amount of energy and time negotiating What The Hell Are We Gonna Watch, Because We’re Damn Well Gonna Watch Something with my wife, The Duchess. When I die and my life passes in front of my eyes it’ll be 65% conversations about finding a TV show that can entertain us for 45 minutes or so before we go to bed.

MAJOR YAKUZA: LIKE A DRAGON SPOILERS ALSO WARNING FOR DISTURBING IMAGERY, WE GET DARK HERE, THANKFULLY THE HYPOTHETICALS NOTED HERE HAVE NOT HAPPENED AS OF YET If you haven’t played Yakuza: Like a Dragon, I’m about to spoil the finale. I highly recommend it - it’s a very good game with an absolutely perfect ending, and I’d happily allow for you to play the game rather than listen to me praise its storytelling.