William Johnson

writer and various things

Podcast

🎙️ 26 notes on community, media, and the offline reset

Feb 16, 2026

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17 min read

🎙️ 26 notes on community, media, and the offline reset

Things I've been thinking about — pulled from too many years at the intersection of tech, media, and the rooms where things actually happen.

William Johnson

Community

Feb 11, 2026

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2 min read

The best UX is IRL

Stop optimizing. Start showing up.

William Johnson

Mindset

Jan 31, 2026

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3 min read

Comfort over confidence

Keep practicing.

William Johnson

Building

Jan 31, 2026

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3 min read

Build for someone, not everyone

Your weirdness is your strength.

William Johnson

Creativity

Jan 5, 2026

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2 min read

Default to storytelling

Because humans are wired for narrative.

William Johnson

Creativity

Your ideas don’t matter until you say them out loud

Jan 4, 2026

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2 min read

Your ideas don’t matter until you say them out loud

Public accountability makes you better.

William Johnson

Life

Speed where it belongs—slowness where it counts

Jan 1, 2026

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2 min read

Speed where it belongs—slowness where it counts

It’s about making sure that the rush belongs to tasks, not to people.

William Johnson

Mindset

Dec 22, 2025

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3 min read

You are not your work

Once you internalize that, feedback becomes data, not danger.

William Johnson

Building

Dec 12, 2025

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2 min read

The newsletter that worked—after 75 that didn’t

Everyone has ideas. Few people execute them.

William Johnson

Mindset

Curiosity has taken me further than any title

Dec 9, 2025

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2 min read

Curiosity has taken me further than any title

Everyone knows something you don’t know.

William Johnson

Podcast

Nov 18, 2025

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4 min read

🎙️ On curiosity and leadership

What I said on the Eh List podcast.

William Johnson

Podcast

May 9, 2025

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2 min read

🎙️ On podcasts, playbooks, and the future of local media

My appearance on the The Hard Part podcast.

William Johnson

Podcast

🎙️ On journalism, community, and building things that last

May 7, 2025

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3 min read

🎙️ On journalism, community, and building things that last

My appearance on the High Agency podcast with Mo Dhaliwal.

William Johnson

William Johnson

🎙️ 26 notes on community, media, and the offline reset

The best UX is IRL

Comfort over confidence

Build for someone, not everyone

Default to storytelling

Your ideas don’t matter until you say them out loud

Speed where it belongs—slowness where it counts

You are not your work

The newsletter that worked—after 75 that didn’t

Curiosity has taken me further than any title

🎙️ On curiosity and leadership

🎙️ On podcasts, playbooks, and the future of local media

🎙️ On journalism, community, and building things that last

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