Writing
This is it. My content. Read it, skim it, share it. Pull out your credit card and pay for some of it, I won't mind.
Executive Playbooks
As a VP I made many mistakes. Not knowing how to negotiate executive comp plans, not taking big enough swings, etc. I wrote the following playbooks to help execs avoid these mistakes and accelerate their careers.
→ Senior Compensation Bible. Make a 7-figure difference in your senior comp package with advanced negotiation strategies.
→ HOW TO BE VP. Learn how to operate like a world-class VP with 80+ frameworks for hiring, communication, and team culture.
Armchair Consulting
Armchair Consulting is a series of articles where I make marketing suggestions for businesses I love, purely for kicks and giggles.
Armchair Consulting
Armchair Consulting is a series of articles where I make marketing suggestions for businesses I love, purely for kicks and giggles.
→ MasterClass just raised $100 million and here’s how I would spend it
→ If I ran the NYT Crossword app during COVID-19, here’s what I’d do
→ Alec Baldwin has the best interview show in the world and more people should listen to it
Boardroom Confidential
Boardroom Confidential is a collection of wild-but-true stories from the careers of me and my friends.
→ The one where I have diarrhea during my own keynote→ The one where Rick wakes up on Excalibur’s lawn in Vegas→ The one where Sam closes a $17M deal at a bar in San Francisco→ The one where we fire Ian for doing shrooms on the company camping trip→ The one where Ed runs up a $2,700 dinner on his wife’s credit card→ The one where the Italian CEO calls me “Fantozzi”→ The one where the company loses $600M due to a bad review on Glassdoor→ The one where Susan saves her job with Google Sheets→ The one where we pull the plug on a $20M acquisition→ The one where we accidentally order 20,000 fidget spinners→ The one where Magnus goes skinnydipping at Del Coronado
Boardroom Confidential
Boardroom Confidential is a collection of wild-but-true stories from the careers of me and my friends.
→ The one where I have diarrhea during my own keynote
→ The one where Rick wakes up on Excalibur’s lawn in Vegas
→ The one where Sam closes a $17M deal at a bar in San Francisco
→ The one where we fire Ian for doing shrooms on the company camping trip
→ The one where Ed runs up a $2,700 dinner on his wife’s credit card
→ The one where the Italian CEO calls me “Fantozzi”
→ The one where the company loses $600M due to a bad review on Glassdoor
→ The one where Susan saves her job with Google Sheets
→ The one where we pull the plug on a $20M acquisition
→ The one where we accidentally order 20,000 fidget spinners
Novels
I have written two somewhat popular (read: not popular enough to be stopped in a Barnes & Noble) thrillers under the pen name D. Melhoff.
Novels
I have written two somewhat popular (read: not popular enough to be stopped in a Barnes & Noble) thrillers under the pen name D. Melhoff.
Kids' Books
Also under the pen name D. Melhoff, I have written four illustrated kids' books, as well as a viral Dr. Seuss parody about COVID-19.
Kids' Books
Also under the pen name D. Melhoff, I have written four illustrated kids’ books, as well as a viral Dr. Seuss parody about COVID-19.
Crypto / NFTs
I'm a crypto idiot but I'm smart enough to know it's the future of intellectual property. As a writer, I focus on narrative design and world building for NFT projects to maximize their value.
→ ETHERWERLD - A randomly generated NFT project. Developed story & characters.
Crypto / NFTs
I’m a crypto idiot but I’m smart enough to know it’s the future of intellectual property. As a writer, I focus on narrative design and world building for NFT projects to maximize their value.
→ ETHERWERLD – A randomly generated NFT project. Developed story & characters.