The science is settled. Small teams do innovative work. Big teams barely reach status quo at best. Even with big projects like digital transformation, it takes a small, focused team of experts to pull off meaningful change. In this episode, we discuss what makes a tiger team, where the term came from, and why it's more relevant than ever in the digital world. Mike and Jason want everything in business to be an animal metaphor.

Managing growth means saying 'no' more often. But how do you turn people down without becoming one of those agencies no one wants to be around? Mike and Jason just want you to know it's not you, it's them, and they'd still like to be friends.

We posted our first writing job recently and were overwhelmed with >1,000 responses (compared to only a fraction of that number for our frequent designer and engineer posts). Does that mean writing is a commodity? Is this why freelancers are starving, journalism is shutting down, and the self-publishing industry is exploding? We take a hard look at a discipline we both love. Mike and Jason just want to make refrigerator magnet poetry.

This week we had an Apple event launching the company into the services biz and Adobe Summit, the company known for its super-expensive enterprise software. One still doesn’t quite totally make sense as a biz model, the other makes so much sense it’s terrifying. Mike and Jason just want to know what happens at the end of all this land-grabbing.

A "completely out-of-control monster." That's what Francois Fluckiger--successor at CERN to the inventor of the internet, Tim Berners-Lee--called the internet on its recent 30-year anniversary. He called it that due to privacy threats, fake news, and online bullying. So we debate the question. Mike and Jason just want to hide the fact that they predate the internet, monster or not.

After years of helping other companies rebrand, Maark has gone through the difficult process of rebranding ourselves. We discuss why we did it, what we learned from it, what was different between rebranding a client and rebranding ourselves, and how[wwwlll] we arrived at the brand that we did. Spoiler: It's a wolf. Mike and Jason just want all of our marketing copy to have wolf puns in it now.

Your intrepid podcast hosts, along with Maark Creative Director Alex Carr, return from the Land of Switzers after attending Digital Design Days. They discuss their impressions and conclusions on the conference, the presenters, and the work they saw. Mike and Jason just want to fondue themselves forever.

In the second episode of a two-part interview with Anders Brownworth, we learn that his personal life is as intriguing as his professional life in cryptocurrency. Brownworth is actively training for the goal of being one of the first civilians in space. IN SPACE. Mike and Jason just want space travel to be as easy as it is in Gattaca.

In the first episode of a two-parter, we interview Anders Brownworth, an expert on the mysterious, controversial, and transformational technologies of blockchain and cryptocurrency. Brownworth has taught the technologies at MIT and has built foundational platforms for them at Circle. Mike and Jason just want to pay bills with Mario coins.

A frank discussion on how Maark balances a large, complex workload, generous PTO, and company growth, all while being a small, nimble agency that gets things done. Mike and Jason just want those four-day work weeks that are all the rage.