Hi, I'm Sean. You may know me from such projects as:
- Gate Check Studios, which provides fractional brand and content leadership to startups and small companies.
- Sabbatical, which helps ambitious profressionals take a career break.
Writing
What's About to Happen (to Content, Journalism, and Comms)
6 Mindset Shifts For Scaling a Content Team
Washington Ave and the decay of American cities
7 Lessons learned from scaling a content machine at Crossbeam in 18 months
A half-baked idea: NFT for writers
It’s time for localism in America.
The Dark Matter Influencer
Our remote work future is going to suck
Your 30s are a time to go for it (or not)
It's about the people, stupid: Lessons from 1 year of Pilcrow House
What I wish I knew five years ago about building a career in "content"
How to take a sabbatical
My dead dad’s journal: How I finally met a man I knew for my entire life
I work for the site with the funny name (A year in review)
Why We Should Fight to Keep Our President Tweeting
Traveling Under Trump
Medium, and The Reason You Can’t Stand the News Anymore.
The Tyranny of Facts: Being “Right” is Not Enough
The Creative World’s Bullshit Industrial Complex
A Behind-the-Scenes Look at the 99U Refresh
The Most Defensible Thing You Can Do for Your Career: Build an Audience
The Greatest Millennial Actor in the Universe is Justin Long
The “Other Side” Is Not Dumb.
The Era of The RFE Publication
Bevel’s Tristan Walker: The Best Ideas Are Brewed out of Authenticity
I Had Help.
Molly Crabapple: The Best Path Is the One You Build Out of Your Own Dysfunction
A Troublemaker’s Manifesto: The Benefits of Wandering
The Narrative Fallacy: Why You Shouldn't Copy Steve Jobs
Want a Long Career? Zig When Everyone Else Zags.
Let’s Kill The Job Title
Pretty Much Everything I Know About the News Business
You Don’t Need To Learn To Code + Other Truths About the Future of Careers
10 Tips for an Awesome Coffee Meeting
AxisPhilly, The William Penn Foundation, and “Old Philadelphia”
The Introversion Bubble
On Impact, Startups, and Journalism
The Universe
The Jeff Bezos School of Long-Term Thinking
The inevitable collision of journalism and everything else
The Jack White school of business
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