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Stephen Lahey

@stephenlahey

Self-employed consultant / recruiter since 2000. Posts about marketing, sales, self-employment, psychology, human nature, politics, humor, music, etc.

 Albany, New York
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Joined April 2009
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"Action produces the very information inaction waits for." - Shane Parrish
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Marketing to AI Agents marketoonist.com/2026/10/mar…
Marketing to AI Agents cartoon - Marketoonist by Tom Fishburne

Marketing to AI Agents cartoon - Marketoonist by Tom Fishburne

I drew this week's cartoon thinking about this strange period of figuring out how to market to the agents that (I almost wrote "who") are increasingly shopping on customers' behalf. Morgan Stanley...

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Lifecycle of Innovation marketoonist.com/2026/10/lif…
Lifecycle of Innovation cartoon - Marketoonist by Tom Fishburne

Lifecycle of Innovation cartoon - Marketoonist by Tom Fishburne

I drew this week's cartoon thinking about two common innovation pitfalls: feature creep and over-serving the market. A company starts by meeting a customer need. Then it adds features to chase more...

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What do you do? bernoff.com/blog/what-i-do
What I do - Josh Bernoff

What I do - Josh Bernoff

Do you know what you do? I don’t mean your job. You’ll change your job from time to time. I mean what you do. What you’re good at, what you enjoy, what people will pay you for. My career — and what I...

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The AI Agent Trust Gap marketoonist.com/2026/10/the…
The AI Agent Trust Gap cartoon - Marketoonist by Tom Fishburne

The AI Agent Trust Gap cartoon - Marketoonist by Tom Fishburne

I drew this week's cartoon inspired by the explosion in AI agents at work and home, and the simultaneous reluctance to let them run. Even as AI agents are starting to hit a tipping point (such as...

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Karl Rove says Republican Party is being taken over by 'Nazis'

Karl Rove says Republican Party is being taken over by 'Nazis'

The Bush-era GOP political operative also said Republicans would be winning the battle for Texas' U.S. Senate seat if John Cornyn was the nominee.

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Gut Feel Decision Making marketoonist.com/2026/09/gut…
Gut Feel Decision Making cartoon - Marketoonist by Tom Fishburne

Gut Feel Decision Making cartoon - Marketoonist by Tom Fishburne

As an HBS student, I was once assigned to be the handler of founding Netscape CEO Jim Barksdale for the afternoon at a school tech conference. Jim was particularly well-known for his "Barksdaleisms"...

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Marketing Funnel Vision marketoonist.com/2026/09/mar…
Marketing Funnel Vision cartoon - Marketoonist by Tom Fishburne

Marketing Funnel Vision cartoon - Marketoonist by Tom Fishburne

I've been researching an upcoming international trip and gave an email address at one point. I was overwhelmed by the aggressive marketing tactics that came next: a string of offers all designed to...

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Pass the popcorn. The AI trains are about to collide linkedin.com/pulse/pass-popc…
Pass the popcorn. The AI trains are about to collide

Pass the popcorn. The AI trains are about to collide

A rumor is circulating about a new AI data center planned for my county. I live near the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, and the people around here are proud, independent, and love their land.

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Is humanity in the business world overrated? businessesgrow.com/2026/09/0… via @markwschaefer
Is humanity in the business world overrated? - Schaefer Marketing Solutions: We Help Businesses...

Is humanity in the business world overrated? - Schaefer Marketing Solutions: We Help Businesses...

Humanity! Is the rallying cry for the anti-AI movement but how important is humanity in our daily business experience?

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The Workslop Tax marketoonist.com/2026/09/the…
The Workslop Tax cartoon - Marketoonist by Tom Fishburne

The Workslop Tax cartoon - Marketoonist by Tom Fishburne

When chasing metrics that reward any type of AI adoption, it's easy to miss the workslop tax that is being paid underneath the surface. Last year, BetterUp Labs and the Stanford Social Media Lab...

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James Clear
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Long-term thinking changes short-term actions. Spend a little time today doing things that will benefit you in ten years.
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The AI Strategy marketoonist.com/2026/08/the…
The AI Strategy cartoon - Marketoonist by Tom Fishburne

The AI Strategy cartoon - Marketoonist by Tom Fishburne

I drew this cartoon thinking about how much panic and FOMO has been setting the pace and tenor of AI adoption. No one wants to be left behind. And that's led to some of the most disjointed decisions...

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The Price Of Waiting

The Price Of Waiting

Insights You Can See. Gapingvoid works with leaders to design culture intentionally.

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Interesting perspective skeptic.com/article/how-cons…
The View From Inside: How Mind Emerged From Mindless Matter

The View From Inside: How Mind Emerged From Mindless Matter

How did lifeless matter learn to feel? Psychiatrist Ralph Lewis traces consciousness from bacteria to human self-awareness, showing step by step how sensing, learning, memory, and emotion evolved...

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"Reliable people don't just keep promises, they remove uncertainty from other people’s lives. If you're reliable, I don't need a backup plan." - Shane Parrish
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Show Don’t Sell

Show Don’t Sell

Insights You Can See. Gapingvoid works with leaders to design culture intentionally.

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Optimizing for the Wrong Metrics marketoonist.com/2026/07/opt…
Optimizing for the Wrong Metrics cartoon - Marketoonist by Tom Fishburne

Optimizing for the Wrong Metrics cartoon - Marketoonist by Tom Fishburne

I recently stumbled across Goodhart's Law: "When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure." The British economist Charles Goodhart originally framed this in a 1975 article on...

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Failure Is an Option - go.shr.lc/4aZhXcs
Failure Is an Option - Blue Penguin Development

Failure Is an Option - Blue Penguin Development

Today’s brain teaser: Can you think of an activity that… #1. Can’t be unlearned. #2. Does not require understanding how it works to be proficient at. #3. Is easy to teach by demonstrating, but...

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The Trust Gap in Marketing Qualified Leads marketoonist.com/2026/07/the…
The Trust Gap in Marketing Qualified Leads cartoon - Marketoonist by Tom Fishburne

The Trust Gap in Marketing Qualified Leads cartoon - Marketoonist by Tom Fishburne

The quality of marketing leads is an age-old sales gripe. David Mamet famously captured this sentiment in the 1984 play (and 1992 movie) Glengarry Glen Ross. The leads were so bad, they became a...

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