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Thoughts on relationships, privacy, and building better tools.

Articles on networking, productivity, and the thinking behind NexxusCRM.

The replies you are still waiting for

Every email where you had the last word and nobody answered, in one list. How NexxusCRM works out what is still waiting on a reply, why it only counts people you care about, and the 1,700 threads that taught me to add a cutoff.

The reminder that knows when to keep quiet

A followup reminder for someone you are seeing on Thursday is not a reminder. It is noise. Here is how NexxusCRM decides who you should hear from today, and why it stays quiet when your calendar already has it covered.

Your network is not a spreadsheet

Most people who work for themselves keep their contacts in a spreadsheet, or nowhere. It holds up until the day it matters. Here is what a spreadsheet cannot tell you, and what I built instead.

New articles by email

Each new article, the day it goes up. Nothing else. Looking for the beta? That is here.