Archive
Everything published, newest first.
2026
- A personal website for career changers
- Why founders need a personal page, not just a company site
- What an AI assistant says when someone asks about you
- The personal brand industry sells you back your own name
- Putting up a page after being made redundant
- The old article about you that will not go away
- A personal website for recent graduates
- Applying cold, with a page instead of a cover letter
- Deleting the old accounts you forgot you had
- A portfolio when your work is not visual
- When you share your name with a thousand other people
- What recruiters actually search before they call you
- A personal website for consultants and independents
- I need something online this week
- Open to Work versus quietly having a page
- A personal website for software engineers
- How to audit your own name in an hour
- One page or several: the only structural decision that matters
- Your CV as a URL, not an attachment
- Personal website versus LinkedIn: what each one is good at
- Should you put a blog on your personal site
- Dribbble taught a generation to design for other designers
- Showing work you signed an NDA about
- A personal website for translators and interpreters
- Choosing which version of your name to live at
- A personal website for actors
- Sending a website instead of a cover letter
- Your site as the anchor for everything else about you
- How many projects belong in a portfolio
- A newsletter or a website of your own
- A personal website for product managers
- Linktree versus a page of your own
- Portfolios worth copying, and the one decision to take from each
- A personal website for teachers
- Writing about yourself in the third person
- The personal site you have not touched since 2021
- A personal website for journalists
- Portfolio PDF versus portfolio website
- The seven-second scan, and what survives it
- Personal websites worth a look, and what to steal from each
- A personal website for PhD students
- GitHub profile versus a portfolio site
- Using Notion as a personal website
- A personal website for academics
- Building a portfolio when you have no client work
- Getting your own site to outrank your LinkedIn profile
- A personal website for designers
- A personal brand is what you say. A reputation is what is said back.
- How to write about yourself without sounding like a brochure
- The link on your CV that nobody clicks
- How to write a case study someone will finish
- Behance versus your own portfolio site
- What to put on a personal website, and what to leave out
- Personal branding without the cringe
- Personal websites by profession: what each field actually expects
- What people find when they search your name
- The job search you can be found in
- The portfolio that gets you hired, and the one that gets skipped
- What a personal website is actually for