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Hey. Welcome to the real user research party. We’re basically best friends now.

If you thought this was gonna be another polished UXR newsletter from someone with a perfect ponytail and zero scars, oh honey, wrong door.

I’ve been the 2am wine-fueled Google warrior screaming “insights that don’t suck!” into the void. The team of one. The ignored deck. The researcher watching “leadership liked it anyway” launch the dumb thing.

Now I help 14k+ UXRs ship research that actually changes roadmaps. Not with theory. With scripts that work on PMs you’d like to scream at (hey, I’ve been there). Templates from my real work. ROI math that saves your budget.

This isn’t “best practices.”

It’s the Research Influence System, the messy, battle-tested shit I built from my own beautiful disaster.

Free: The good stuff

• 1 article every two months

• 1-2 Podcast epis/vids every month

Paid: The full survival kit

Everything in free+

• Substack Hub: my Notion brain dump with 40+ templates, scripts, mini-courses. Copy-paste your way out of blank-page hell.

• Private Slack community (I actually show up)

• UXR Tools Bundle

• Full Substack archive

• Weekly actionable as hell post via either an article, video, or audio

Your current sh*tshow? Pick one.

Stakeholders ignoring you

• How to Use the Pyramid Principle to Write Research Reports

• Deliver research insights that demand action, with zero guesswork

• Prioritize Qualitative Research Insights with the Opportunity Gap Survey

• Write impactful user research insights

• Activate Your Insights

Studies without the meltdown

• How To Run a Qualitative Usability Test

• The Subjectivity of Surveys

• Analyze & Synthesize Generative User Research

• How to run a quantitative usability test

• Have You Met TED(W)?

Prove ROI yesterday

• Use these simple formulas to show research ROI

• How to Track the Impact of Your Research

• Nailing your UXR OKRs - A framework for maximizing research impact

• “Great Insights!” Isn’t a Metric

Career/promotion chaos

• A UXR resume journey

• Write Your Best UXR Cover Letter Ever

• Create and present an impactful user research case study

• Watch me rip apart my UXR case study

• Assess and Advance Your Career as a User Researcher

Stop being the org’s dirty little secret.

Start shipping research that ships.

It’s great to have you here. Now we’re best friends. (Or, we will be anyway, if you subscribe!)

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