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 * 1 year ago
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   ORGANIZED PPC CLUB 83
   
   Became the organizer of various PPC digital marketing initiatives,
   collectively known as the Hellbent projects: the PPC Club 83 – the private
   PPS Slack community; PPC Certification; and Alcohol and Advertising, for a
   few examples. If you have a weird sense of humor and know digital marketing,
   you may enjoy my series of columns on How would the great philosophers do
   PPC/digital marketing, and lessons on PPC & digital marketing from song
   lyrics.
   
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 * 3 years ago
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   LAUNCHED “CLIENT HORROR STORIES” PODCAST
   
   What more fun way to meet interesting people than to deep-dive into
   challenging client situations they’ve been in, and what they learned and
   should have done differently. Some insane stories indeed–clients can be krazy
   to manage! Listen to some at Client Horror Stories, launched on April 4th.
   
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 * 3 years ago
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   ‘BELOVED BY CLIENTS’ PUBLISHED, EXPOSING THE OPEN SECRET OF CLIENT WORK
   
   Beloved by Clients–my guide to making clients love working with you–launched,
   exposing the open secret of client work: what makes clients happy isn’t just
   the results of your work. Rather, it’s how you work: how you communicate, how
   fast you respond, how you deal with mistakes you’ll make, how you deal with
   delays or mistakes others make, how you take ownership or pass the buck, how
   you turn work into processes, how organized and structured you are, how
   transparent you are, how you tell them what they don’t want to hear or shirk
   away from doing so, and so forth. PS: the book is also out!
   
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 * 5 years ago
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   BECAME UV’S CMO, FTW
   
   I began leading growth for UV. Figuring out how to land million dollar dev
   contracts has been quite the adventurous ride. I’ve been loving it and
   conquering it! Update: We did it! We sold it to Argano!
   
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 * 5 years ago
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   PUBLISHED THE SCORPION & THE FROG
   
   I spent a weekend writing up 29 versions of the classic fairy tale. Same
   story and same facts each time; but in each, the backstory before it happened
   & the thoughts in each of their heads change–resulting in a very different
   story each time. Fun, light, tons of hidden Easter egg gifts for the readers
   – and each one reinforcing that whenever I see someone behaving in a way that
   makes no sense to me, I need to ask myself, “what does he know that I don’t?”
   Read it and then let me know what you think.
   
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 * 5 years ago
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   THE BUFFALO GROUP
   
   On June 5th, I was appointed Non-Executive Chairman of The Buffalo Group, the
   Latin American political consultancy.
   
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 * 6 years ago
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   BEGAN INSTAGRAMMING
   
   @smorganfriedman–with neither selfies nor food.
   
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 * 8 years ago
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   FOUNDED CHECKRAISE
   
   Ask me about it. Checkraise built the most modern poker technology on the
   market — including the first in-browser, real-money, fully legal poker game.
   And it gave me an excuse to spend most of my time in São Paulo for a few
   years and learn Portuguese.
   
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 * 9 years ago
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   BEGAN TWEETING
   
   @morganfriedman but heed the warning in my Twitter bio: I know a ton about a
   tiny number of topics; nothing about anything else. Each of my observations
   here is obvious, trivial, or wrong.
   
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 * 10 years ago
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   BEGAN NOTING SPANISH ETYMOLOGIES
   
   Spanish Etymology: Spanish for Nerds. I am obsessed with understanding where
   words come from, in many languages–and connecting the dots. My passion since
   I was 8 years old. For fun, I turned my decades of notes into a blog, with
   tens of thousands of subscribers. Get the book, as well.
   
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 * 12 years ago
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   FOUNDED TINAK: ARAMAIC ART
   
   Created the market for modern art ketubahs, taking ancient Aramaic texts and
   using them in modern art. Led the company to profitability, and built a
   fantastic and loyal community around our art and style. Now I’m Chairman–just
   because that makes me sound important!
   
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 * 15 years ago
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   RAN MARKETING SERVICES @ PROCENTRIS
   
   Procentris. Procentris’ of Online Marketing Services, managing the online
   marketing for its US SEO & SEM clients. In Bombay. Managing dozens of SEOs &
   SEMs while in India = Premature White Hairs. I tried, and not for me!
   
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 * 15 years ago
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   KEYNOTED INTERESTING NEW YORK
   
   I love this speech I gave, about my idiosyncratic way of walking around
   cities. (It starts out slow the first ~4 minutes… but stick it out for 13
   minutes, it gets awesome as I get into the groove.)
   
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 * 16 years ago
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   BEGAN WNIP: WEDNESDAY NIGHT INTERESTING PEOPLE
   
   WNIP. Every Wednesday since 2008, the best people I know in the country would
   come to my house for drinks. (Except for interludes when I’m abroad or in
   intense-focus mode.) Often includes very, very awesome people.
   
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 * 16 years ago
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   WON A PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION
   
   As CEO of The Marketing Scientist, I ran the digital for Álvaro Colom
   Caballeros’ candidacy for the Presidency of Guatemala. We won.
   
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 * 17 years ago
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   FOUNDED THE MARKETING SCIENTIST ON 27/7
   
   The Marketing Scientist. Started an applied psychology lab: figuring out how
   to get 1+ million people buying your product. I’ve done it a few times :)
   
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 * 17 years ago
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   PENGUIN PUBLISHED MY TWO BOOKS
   
   Buy the book, Overheard in New York. I’ve written two books–both Top 10
   best-sellers on Amazon, and both published by Penguin. And buy the sequel,
   Overheard in the Office.
   
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 * 19 years ago
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   FOUNDED OVERHEARD IN NEW YORK
   
   Overheard in New York. Founded a humor empire with my (successful!) mission
   to get 10 million people to laugh at my jokes. Time Magazine‘s Coolest
   Blogger of the Year. Endless Media Attention: my 15 minutes of fame. (And our
   sister sites, incl. Overheard in the Office).
   
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 * 21 years ago
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   BEGAN WORDCOUNTER
   
   Wordcounter. Founded the first & leading site to count the number of words in
   a document. Sold and exited, thank you very much!
   
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 * 23 years ago
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   WAS SENIOR ANALYST @ BASEX
   
   Basex. Analyst, then Senior Analyst, then VP of Research at Basex. Focusing
   on Knowledge Management research.
   
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 * 25 years ago
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   FOUNDED TRIPSMITH
   
   My very first company: one of the first print-on-demand systems. Got lucky,
   right before The Crash.
   
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 * 25 years ago
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   BEGAN THE INFLATION CALCULATOR
   
   Inflation Calculator. Began the first & most visited site to calculate the US
   inflation rate.
   
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 * 25 years ago
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   BEGAN THE CLICHE FINDER
   
   Cliche Finder. Began the first & most popular searchable database of cliches.
   I don’t hide my love of cliches.
   
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 * 25 years ago
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   WAS GRADUATED FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA
   
   Penn, the Low Ivy. Won the Alumni Society Award as one of the 10 best
   students of my year. Won the Lilian & Benjamin Levy Award for writing, too.
   And yes, I’m a pretentious grammar snob for saying “was graduated” rather
   than “graduated.” I also use the Oxford Comma.
   
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 * 26 years ago
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   BEGAN WESTEGG ON 9/11 (NO, NOT THAT YEAR)
   
   When still a baby bopper, I founded my first site & bought my first domain on
   date that most people remember for some other reason that happened a few
   years later.
   
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 * 29 years ago
   
   
   DISCOVERED ‘THE NET’ AND MADE SOME OF THE VERY EARLY INTERESTING PAGES
   
   I discovered ‘the Net’ (information superhighway?) and had lots of ideas for
   web pages–and taught myself programming, made them, and years later, they
   still get a ton of traffic. There are many, but here are a bunch, for
   Memory’s Sake: Yiddishisms: Yiddish Sayings (I also interviewed my relatives
   and wrote a book on my family history but that’s not for public
   consumption!); the first Antoine de St Exupery page; the first Albert
   Einstein page; the first Simpsons Quote page; the first Ogden Nash page; the
   first Francis Bacon page; the first site about my hometown Great Neck; my
   long-time game of finding words-in-other words; my favorite etymologies; my
   long-time favorite poem; my thoughts on wandering around; my game of trying
   to understand business-ese; the only guide to walking around NY’s ethnic
   neighborhoods; some ancient quotes that once influenced me; my cv; books that
   moved me; and pre-Facebook photos of me.
   
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 * 30 years ago
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   WON GOLD MEDAL @ NY MATH FAIR
   
   Childhood math nerd.
   
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 * 31 years ago
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   PERFORMED PIANO @ CARNEGIE HALL
   
   Childhood piano freak.
   
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 * 35 years ago
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   OBSESSED OVER LEARNING HOW TO IMITATE ANYONE’S WRITING STYLE
   
   In middle school, I read John & Abigail Adams’ collected letters and loved
   their epistolary style. So I found lots of pen-pals and wrote to them like
   this. I did this for years until I became quite good. Then I spent a decade
   doing the same but for other lots of other people’s styles.
   
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 * 40 years ago
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   MEMORIZED (MOST OF) THE DICTIONARY
   
   Starting when I was approximately 8 years old until late high school, I’d
   spend 2 hours every morning memorizing the dictionary (and its etymologies),
   before the school bus came. The trusty, unpretentious World Book Dictionary,
   of course.
   
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 * 47 years ago
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   WAS BORN, ON 1/14
   
   Don’t remember it well. But my dad looks great in this photo with me, taken
   generally around that time.
   
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 * 75 years ago
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   GREAT-AUNT DIES WHILE COOKING DINNER… AND FAMILY EATS DINNER
   
   Before I was born, the entire extended family mishpachah–everyone, very
   poor–all came to my great-aunt’s house for dinner every Sunday night, for
   decades. The weekly luxury. When she was in her 90s, she laid down her head
   while cooking the dinner, and died. The whole family arrived over the next
   hours, as scheduled. They ate the dinner. It’s what she would have wanted.
   
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 * 94 years ago
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   MY FAMILY EMIGRATES TO NY… AND ALL BUT ONE RETURN
   
   Five poor brothers emigrated from Minsk, Belarus to NY. The great depression
   was so bad for them that four of them returned to Belarus. Those four were
   murdered (you know, that issue with Germany). The one who stayed in NY was my
   great-grandfather. Thanks for not moving back to Eastern Europe on the eve of
   Hitler and Stalin, G-Gramps!
   
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 * 104 years ago
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   GREAT-GRANDFATHER SENDS FOR WIFE… AND GETS HER SISTER
   
   My great-grandfather emigrated from “Minsk Gubernia” to NY. Saved money, sent
   enough back to send for his wife… and the ship arrived, and his wife’s sister
   stepped off. Wife died and she took her place. She ended up being my
   great-grandma! Love those traditions.
   
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 * 126 years ago
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   POSSIBLY-RELATED MORGAN ROBERTSON WROTE THE TITAN
   
   Similarities of the rôles as well as the first and family names between
   myself and Morgan Robertson have led to widespread speculation that we may be
   related. On the face of it, we’re unlikely related (he’s unlikely Ashkenaz!)
   but speculation is fun. “The Other Morgan” in 1912 wrote The Wreck of the
   Titan: Or, Futility about a ship named the Titan that was full of elites
   without enough lifeboats that hit an iceberg and sunk on an April night–14
   years before the famous “Titanic” event.
   
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 * 1,100 years ago
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   ASHKENAZ IN WHITE RUSSIA, BUT ORIGINALLY PHOENICIAN
   
   23andme tells me I’m 100% Ashkenazi via Minsk/Belarus, supporting evidence
   for the family lore that we were rabbis for generations. 23andme has not been
   able to confirm the other family lore, that before that we were possibly
   plainly purple-loving Phoenician peasants.
   
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 * 220,000 years ago
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   Y-CHROMOSOMAL ADAM: MY ORIGINAL HUMAN ANCESTOR
   
   My story begins with my first known ancestor, for the human part of my DNA,
   was Y Chromosomal Adam. He’s the first “anatomically modern human,” as the
   evolutionary-biologists call them: the one man whom science has taught us
   that I’m descended from. And all other modern humans, too.
   
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 * 1,165,000 years ago
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   MY REPTILIAN ANCESTORS… MAYBE
   
   They say, in our family lore, that 1,165,000 years ago our family’s distant
   ancestors were reptiles and thus we still have some trace of reptilian DNA in
   us. 23andme confirmed I do have some non-human Neanderthal DNA in me, at
   least. Who knows if the reptilian story–a bubbe-meise, as my grandma called
   them–is true or not. If I had to bet, I’d guess the chance that this is
   accurate would be about 0.00298347%.
   
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ABOUT

I’m Morgan Friedman and I find meaning in deep focus. Here’s is a timeline of my
projects: some professional, some for fun, but what’s the difference?
Professionally, I get my hands dirty, learning how to get millions in sales or
votes, then managing teams to making it happen. Personally, the 411 is I was
born 1/14 & I know a ton about a few topics, zero about anything else. My
observations are likely obvious, trivial, or wrong.

LINKS

✓ About moi (from long ago) 🥑
✓ Twitter (Short thoughts)
✓ Instagram (Etymologies)
✓ The original version of this page
✓ My Ancient Media Mentions (Ancient CV, including my old list of tons of media
mentions before I tired of keeping track.)
✓ Say hi 🚀 I enjoy having pen-pals with the same enthusiasm I did when I was
11.

THE WNIP CROWD


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