Category: Pitch Geek

For most of my life, I have carried a set of loves and obsessions: design, architecture, fashion, dance, rhetoric, protocol, and etiquette. A few years ago, I had a realization. These weren’t parallel interests, they were all expressions of the same fixation: form. In each of these disciplines, form is primary. Form isn’t something a… Continue reading Form.

See what’s actually there. The top half shows performance — how they want to be seen. The bottom half shows formation — who they are, what they trust, and what they still need to prove. The top half tells you how to enter the conversation — their frame of self-importance. The bottom half tells you… Continue reading How to Read a LinkedIn Profile

Funders on Fundraising: A New Podcast on How Fundraising Really Works Most fundraising is misunderstood. It’s treated as performance—polished and polite, built around the idea that merit rises and money follows. But anyone who’s spent real time in the work knows that’s not how it happens. Decisions get made in quiet conversations long before a… Continue reading Launching the Podcast!