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  • 5 months ago
    'Beloved by Clients' published, exposing the open secret of client work
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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!

  • 2 years ago
    Became UV's CMO, FTW
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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!

  • 2 years ago
    Published the Scorpion & the Frog
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    Published the Scorpion & the Frog

    I spent a week­end writ­ing up 27 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?”

  • 3 years ago
    The Buffalo Group
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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.

  • 3 years ago
    Began Instagramming
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    Began Instagramming

    @smorganfriedman–with nei­ther self­ies nor food.

  • 5 years ago
    Founded Checkraise
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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.

  • 7 years ago
    Began Tweeting
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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.

  • 8 years ago
    Began Noting Spanish Etymologies
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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.

  • 10 years ago
    Founded Tinak: Aramaic Art
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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!

  • 12 years ago
    Ran Marketing Services @ Procentris
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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!

  • 12 years ago
    Keynoted Interesting New York
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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.)

  • 13 years ago
    Began WNIP: Wednesday Night Interesting People
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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!). Of­ten in­cludes very, very awe­some peo­ple.

  • 13 years ago
    Won a Presidential Election
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    Won a Presidential Election

    As CEO of The Mar­ket­ing Sci­en­tist, I ran the on­line com­po­nent of Ál­varo Colom Ca­balleros’ can­di­da­cy for the Pres­i­den­cy of Guatemala. We won.

  • 14 years ago
    Founded The Marketing Scientist on 27/7
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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 :)

  • 15 years ago
    Penguin Published My Two Books
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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.

  • 16 years ago
    Founded Overheard in New York
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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).

  • 18 years ago
    Began Wordcounter
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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!

  • 20 years ago
    Was Senior Analyst @ Basex
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    Was Senior Analyst @ Basex

    Ba­sex. An­a­lyst, then Se­nior An­a­lyst, then VP of Re­search at Ba­sex. Fo­cus­ing on Knowl­edge Man­age­ment re­search.

  • 22 years ago
    Founded Tripsmith
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    Founded Tripsmith

    My very first com­pa­ny: one of the first print-on-de­mand sys­tems. Got lucky, right be­fore The Crash.

  • 22 years ago
    Began the Inflation Calculator
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    Began the Inflation Calculator

    In­fla­tion Cal­cu­la­tor. Be­gan the first & most vis­it­ed site to cal­cu­late the US in­fla­tion rate.

  • 22 years ago
    Began the Cliche Finder
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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.

  • 23 years ago
    Was Graduated from the University of Pennsylvania
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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.

  • 24 years ago
    Began Westegg on 9/11 (no, not that year)
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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.

  • 27 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.

  • 28 years ago
    Won Gold Medal @ NY Math Fair
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    Won Gold Medal @ NY Math Fair

    Child­hood math nerd.

  • 28 years ago
    Performed Piano @ Carnegie Hall
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    Performed Piano @ Carnegie Hall

    Child­hood pi­ano freak.

  • 33 years ago
    Obsessed Over Learning How To Imitate Anyone's Writing Style
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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.

  • 37 years ago
    Memorized (most of) the Dictionary
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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.

  • 45 years ago
    Was Born, on 1/14
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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.

  • 72 years ago
    Great-Aunt Dies while Cooking Dinner... And Family Eats Dinner
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    Great-Aunt Dies while Cooking Dinner… And Family Eats Dinner

    The en­tire ex­tend­ed family—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.

  • 91 years ago
    My Family Emigrates to NY... and All But One Return
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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!

  • 101 years ago
    Great-Grandfather Sends for Wife... And Gets Her Sister
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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.

  • 123 years ago
    Possibly-Related Morgan Robertson Wrote The Titan
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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.

  • 1,100 years ago
    Ashkenaz in White Russia, But Originally Phoenician
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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.

  • 220,000 years ago
    Y-chromosomal Adam: My Original Human Ancestor
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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.

  • 1,165,000 years ago
    My Reptilian Ancestors... Maybe
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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%.

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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