Strategy & Administration

We now live in a creator economy with grassroots and grasstops political advocacy where swing voters are influenced with AI. For creator marketing, I like Pearpop and Breakr. For musical artist management, I like Sentric -> Distrokid -> Terrorbird -> AWAL. For the nuts and bolts of running thrifty companies on a budget, Patriot Payroll, Thatch for Individual Coverage Health Reimbursement Arrangement (ICHRA) benefits management, Horilla for human resources management (HRM) for it's support of Andrew Grove's objectives and key results (OKRs) which John Doerr expands upon here, Remofirst for international HR employer of record (EOR) services, Weblate for internationalization/language translation done by professionals, Taiga.io for project management, Penpot.io for designing application prototypes, Twenty for customer relationship management (CRM), Swetrix for web analytics, Tracardi for customer segmentation, Activepieces for marketing automation (Node-RED is truly FOSS [Richard Stallman is an extreme treasure], but Activepieces is more convenient), ListMonk for newsletters, transactional emails and Fonoster-based SMS, Documenso for e-signatures, Papermark for document sharing/data/deal rooms, Docmost for team wikis with live collaboration, NextCloud for team file storage and office software, and Odoo for enterprise resource planning (ERP) back-office tasks like accounting and expense management that the other tools are not capable of.

For archiving, traditional banker’s boxes are not suitable. I prefer 100% cotton paper printed by the Canon GX4020 with pigment ink (refilling ink tank printers is more affordable than replacing ink cartridges), stored in acid and lignin-free boxes and folders. For sustainable copy paper I prefer sugarcane fiber. ULINE, Southworth, and BAZIC Products are great. I trust Iron Mountain for offsite archiving.