Carl Smith

Smile and say hello to people who don’t look like you. Especially if you look like me. It matters more than ever.

Leadership in the Intelligence Age What Sticks, What Stretches, What Slips, and What Stops The Intelligence Age has arrived quietly. AI slipped into our tools, our workflows, and our meetings before most leaders had time to decide how ...

A new edition of the Built To Change newsletter (my personal playground) is out. I’m tackling how leadership changes in the intelligence age. Please give it a look if you’re into the whole being a good leader thing. 😘

I mentioned there “might" be giveaways at Bureau Demo Day. Yesterday I got an email asking, so what’s the deal? Well… 🤷‍♂️

Why not? Let’s have some fun!

This afternoon, we'll give away tickets to the Ops Week & Bureaverse Regional Meetups!

Attend to win: community.bureauofdigital.com/the-bureau-d...

Oh, LinkedIn. You are too much! 😘

If time and money didn’t matter, what would you spend the rest of your life doing?

The Bureau Demo Day — The Bureau Discover, Learn, and Save! Join us for The Bureau Demo Day, where the partners and sponsors who help keep our community thriving will take the virtual stage to showcase tools, platforms, and services...

Come One! Come All! The Bureau Demo Day is almost here. Discover the tools, services and trusted partners that can carry your agency higher in 2026. Best of all, we'll be learning together. That is the ❤️ of Demo Day! Oh, and it's free! thebureau.community/the-bureau-d...

Buy a Garmin? Sorry, I kid. I kid.

Would AI ever have created Jethro Tull? I’m thinkin not.

AI Search Optimization: What’s Working Now—And How to Sell It — The Bureau Search is evolving faster than ever as AI Overviews, chatbots, and LLM-powered answers take center stage. What does this mean for visibility, traffic, and SEO? In this webinar, Vishal dives deep into ...

Join us as our official AI partner E2M shares the latest insights & tactics for showing up in AI Search. They'll show a process to offer AI Search Optimization confidently, including how to structure deliverables and increase your MRR.

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Authenticity gets harder as things grow. I want a message from The Bureau to feel human, but more people = more chances that something feels a little off. I used to think manually writing every message was the most authentic. Turns out silence and irrelevant content are less kind than structure. 🤷

I just found out I am fucktose intolerant.

My love language is sarcasm.

From my brother and sister? Go on! Is this possible???

What happens when the person who takes care of everybody gets tired of taking care of everybody?

Greed is one hell of a drug.

a reminder that Dan Akroyd was in the We Are the World video.

I miss Prince.

The reason we’re in this situation is education is failing our country. People in America obviously don’t understand reality.

It makes sense why MAGA would want to hurt education if they benefited from the folks who don’t understand.

Or maybe I’m the one who doesn’t understand?

Focus on being as relaxed as possible while you run.

Think. It’s not illegal, yet.

I think I've had enough!

Sometimes I give myself the creeps. Sometimes my mind plays tricks on me.

Universal truth: the book was better. Read books.

Sometimes, it's ok to make it about you. Sometimes, it is about you.

"Policy shits" is a typo I'm keeping.

Remember when people used to read an entire message instead of quickly jumping to conclusions and responding passionately to something that wasn't said?

Yeah, me neither.

I just zapped the PRAM in a dead PowerBook and it came back to life. Ask me anything!

YouTube video by Bureau of Digital Agency Mythbusters? Take One

Can agencies scale? Is it possible or just a myth?

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Somebody just said RFCray, and I can't stop giggling. Reality TV has gotten really good this election. 😢

Looks like the divide-and-conquer plan is going splendidly. Add a dash of misdirection, and the lemmings will jump off the cliff.