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February 10, 2026

Putting GEO Into Context: Lessons for Executives from Early Days of SEO

Before investing heavily in Generative Engine Optimization, we should learn from the uncertainty, opportunistic consulting, and rapid shifts that marked the emerging SEO industry.

January 28, 2026

The Beer-Belly Organization

Organizations, like bodies, accumulate weight in the middle. Here's how to recognize the pattern and what leaders can do to restore organizational fitness.

January 20, 2026

Beyond GEO and SEO: The Case for a Unified Digital Brand Presence Model

SEO and GEO are treated as separate disciplines, but they share a common foundation. It's time for a unified model of digital brand presence.

January 12, 2026

Building an AI-Empowered Marketing Organization

A practical framework for integrating AI into marketing organizations without losing the human judgment that makes marketing work.

December 15, 2025

Building a Marketing Organization: Models and Structures of Agency Utilization

A framework for how in-house marketing departments should think about structuring their agency relationships — from fully outsourced to fully insourced and everything in between.

November 20, 2025

Triangulating Truth: A Model for Marketing Measurement

Attribution models lie. So do surveys and incrementality tests. But by triangulating across all three, marketers can get closer to the truth about what's actually working.

October 30, 2025

Neither Friends nor Servants: Lessons About Building Teams from a Young Agency Owner

What I learned about building and leading teams from the mistakes I made running my first agency in my twenties — lessons that still apply today.

Christopher
Olberding

I write about technology, design, and the ideas that shape how we live and work. This site is a place for thinking out loud — exploring questions that don't have easy answers. When I'm not writing, I'm usually reading widely across fields or building things on the web.

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