John Saddington

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Hey folks,

Wow, has it really been that long since I sent you one of these? Yes, yes it has… on May the 4th actually.

And that was a pretty important day, by the way… I had publicly revealed MNML App and wanted to share it with the world. I’m glad it’s out and I’m glad folks are finding it useful, naturally.

But that’s not what this newsletter is about, of course. I had some inspiration recently that I wanted to share with you and I thought was important enough to open up the newsletter editor and jot a few thoughts done.

Continue reading “Your Best Investment Ever”

I’m currently grinding through Malcolm Gladwell’s podcast, Revisionist History and I particularly enjoy the way that he works his way through a number of different topics and forces you to reconsider and reevaluate them with a fresh perspective.

Every single episode elicits a few head-nods and a few “ah-ha’s” and I really love that.

Continue reading “Podcast: Revisionist History”

This is really neat:

A framework for entry-level web literacy & 21st Century skills.

Time to level-up a bit.

Continue reading “Mozilla: Web Literacy”

I saw this shared randomly on the interwebs sometime ago and I thought I’d capture it here and add a few wandering thoughts related to hiring.

So, here you go:

Continue reading “Zero Talent”

This is mind-blowingly-awesome. I’ve watched it a bunch of times already just to see if I could recognize most of the tunes and vids:

Continue reading “40 Years of Hip Hop”

I particularly like the lyrics to this new song via Arcade Fire… and especially the chorus:

Continue reading “Creature Comfort”

I’ve mentioned this in the past here but this past Friday I graduated from the class and celebrated with my cohort on a job well-done.

Continue reading “Success: Startup School”

Cool:

Continue reading “Esad Ribic”

This couldn’t be more true:

Continue reading “Focus is Power”

I spent the day with the fine folks at Superhuman and had the distinct pleasure of being onboarded into their new email app.

I mention this in the vlog, but, I wanted to capture this moment for posterity because if they are able to move me off of the GMAIL web app after 13 years, then, it would be a literal first!

Continue reading “SUPERHUMAN Email…?”