# chief staff (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 15 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover chief staff. Page: Feed: --- ## [OpenAI. McDonald’s. Hermès. + 75 Open Marketing Roles.](https://thelandingpad.substack.com/p/openai-mcdonalds-hermes-75-open-marketing) _2026-08-20 · Justin Taylor · The Landing Pad_ Great jobs from fantastic brands ## [Why is Pritzker pushing the massive 57 percent Tollway hike & other taxes?](https://hanania.substack.com/p/why-is-pritzker-pushing-the-massive) _2026-08-19 · Ray Hanania · Courageous Thought - Ray Hanania_ Pritzker needs the cash to cover his massive funding of undocumented residents (illegal aliens, non-citizens) by increasing more taxes. Meanwhile, seniors struggle under rising state taxes & fees. ## [JB Pritzker is the greatest threat to hardworking American taxpayers](https://hanania.substack.com/p/jb-pritzker-is-the-greatest-threat) _2026-08-19 · Ray Hanania · Courageous Thought - Ray Hanania_ Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker is behind 57 tax and fee hikes that makes him a weak challenger to President Donald Trump whose policies have also burdened the American economy. Pritzker is a hypocrite ## [I’m turning my fractional work into a business. Here’s why](https://thelandingpad.substack.com/p/im-turning-my-fractional-work-into) _2026-08-19 · Justin Taylor · The Landing Pad_ After a month of consulting I realized I couldn’t actually tell people what I do. Here’s what I did about it. ## [Issue 102: The First 6️⃣ 0️⃣ Days as a New Chief of Staff](https://askachiefofstaff.substack.com/p/issue-102-the-first-6-0-days-as-a) _2026-08-18 · Ask a Chief of Staff · Ask a Chief of Staff_ Part 2 of 3: One Chief of Staff on what shifts, and what doesn't, in month 2️⃣ ## [I started a company this week. Here's the whole build.](https://thelandingpad.substack.com/p/i-started-a-company-this-week-heres) _2026-08-17 · Justin Taylor · The Landing Pad_ From consulting as just me, to doing it as a company ## [Proof of origin](https://1marcolopez.substack.com/p/proof-of-origin) _2026-08-17 · Power Courier by Marco Lopez_ Marco Lopez on the White House transshipment report, fifty cancelled Mexican visas, and the 2028 questions nobody is asking. ## [The Metric Arizona Is Missing](https://1marcolopez.substack.com/p/colorado-river-arizona-chips-housing) _2026-08-16 · Marco Lopez · Power Courier by Marco Lopez_ Chips, housing and a river that just got cut ## [Netflix. Disney. NVIDIA. + 75 Open Marketing Roles](https://thelandingpad.substack.com/p/netflix-disney-nvidia-75-open-marketing) _2026-08-13 · Justin Taylor · The Landing Pad_ Great gigs from amazing brands! ## [The consulting journey after 1 month](https://thelandingpad.substack.com/p/the-consulting-journey-after-1-month) _2026-08-12 · Justin Taylor · The Landing Pad_ An honest reflection on where I am, and what i'm dealing with. ## [International money transfers (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/qWVdkWbdca0c) _2026-08-12 · **Sponsored**_ Send money to other countries and manage multi‑currency balances online. ## [The announcement is the easy part: Everything That Has to Be True Before You Build in Mexico](https://1marcolopez.substack.com/p/the-announcement-is-the-easy-part) _2026-08-12 · Marco Lopez · Power Courier by Marco Lopez_ Former CBP Chief of Staff Marco A. Lopez, Jr. lays out the seven questions that determine whether a Mexico operation succeeds, from rules of origin to workforce to border throughput. Most companies can answer two. ## [Patty Garcia, who denied voters a choice, asserts "Democracy belongs to voters"](https://hanania.substack.com/p/patty-garcia-who-denied-voters-a) _2026-08-11 · Ray Hanania · Courageous Thought - Ray Hanania_ When US Rep. Jesus "Chuy" Garcia & his chief of staff Patty Garcia undercut the system to prevent voters from having a choice on his successor, they insulted Democracy and cheated voters ## [Everyone is using Claude to write their resume. Here’s how to beat them.](https://thelandingpad.substack.com/p/everyone-is-using-claude-to-write) _2026-08-10 · Justin Taylor · The Landing Pad_ The average job now gets 254 applications, and 78% of them were written with AI. ## [Arizona's 265 Billion Chip Boom Meets a 1994 Visa List](https://1marcolopez.substack.com/p/from-marco-lopez-we-spent-265-billion) _2026-08-10 · Power Courier by Marco Lopez_ Former CBP chief of staff Marco Lopez on the TN visa list frozen since 1994, and the five categories that could staff Arizona's 109 billion dollar year. ## [Cabal of Clout blinds Alexi Giannoulias from learning Raja Krishnamoorthi's lessons](https://hanania.substack.com/p/cabal-of-clout-blinds-alexi-giannoulias) _2026-08-06 · Ray Hanania · Courageous Thought - Ray Hanania_ Big money doesn't guarantee an election. Alexi Giannoulias should just ask Raja Krishnamoorthi. Running for an office while you are running for another one, is just so "Cabal of Clout" ## [Nike. Netflix. Chanel. + 75 Open Marketing Roles.](https://thelandingpad.substack.com/p/nike-netflix-chanel-75-open-marketing) _2026-08-06 · Justin Taylor · The Landing Pad_ Great jobs from some fantastic brands ## [I was the tax office’s unpaid clerk, until I delegated it to an AI](https://constantin.glez.de/posts/2026-08-06-i-was-tax-office-unpaid-clerk-until-i-delegated-to-ai/) _2026-08-05 · Constantin Gonzalez · Constant Thinking_ Every summer, a shoebox wins. For about fifteen years, preparing my German tax return has cost me a weekend plus a few evenings, and quite a lot of swearing in between. Not the tax return itself: I have a Steuerberaterin for that, and she is excellent. What costs me the weekend is everything that has to happen before she can start. Remembering which receipts exist. Finding them. Naming them.… ## [TikTok Shop is the hottest thing happening in retail and marketing](https://thelandingpad.substack.com/p/tiktok-shop-is-the-hottest-thing) _2026-08-05 · Justin Taylor · The Landing Pad_ It's outselling most retailers, brands are now designing products just for it, and the job market around it is wide open ## [Issue 101: Reality Is What the Other Person Thinks You Said](https://askachiefofstaff.substack.com/p/issue-101-reality-is-what-the-other) _2026-08-04 · Ask a Chief of Staff · Ask a Chief of Staff_ Why Communication Intelligence™ (CQ) Is a Chief of Staff's Strategic Advantage ## [How to rebuild your social content so it actually works for you](https://thelandingpad.substack.com/p/how-to-rebuild-your-social-content) _2026-08-03 · Justin Taylor · The Landing Pad_ Stop just posting, and start creating with an endgoal in mind ## [Stream Torrents and IPTV Instantly (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/920oySqsMWso) _2026-08-03 · **Sponsored**_ Search, index, and play music, movies, books, and live TV in your browser. ## [The water math does not work](https://1marcolopez.substack.com/p/from-marco-lopez-phoenixs-chip-boom) _2026-08-03 · Power Courier by Marco Lopez_ Phoenix is adding fabs and losing water at the same time. Plus the cartel tax on your avocados, Ceuta, Spain as a midterm ad, and the World Cup betting record. ## [Samsung. DoorDash. Mattel. + 75 Open Marketing Roles](https://thelandingpad.substack.com/p/samsung-doordash-mattel-75-open-marketing) _2026-07-30 · Justin Taylor · The Landing Pad_ Los Angeles is stacked this week, and the food brands came hungry. ## [Calling yourself a fractional CMO is stupid](https://thelandingpad.substack.com/p/calling-yourself-a-fractional-cmo) _2026-07-29 · Justin Taylor · The Landing Pad_ rant incoming. ## [the tactical build for my AI chief of staff](https://materialinterest.substack.com/p/the-tactical-build-for-my-ai-chief) _2026-07-28 · Kira Mackenzie · Material Interest_ What I actually delegate to Quinn. ## [Member Exclusive: The Meeting Framework That Actually Gets Decisions Made](https://askachiefofstaff.substack.com/p/member-exclusive-the-meeting-framework) _2026-07-28 · Ask a Chief of Staff · Ask a Chief of Staff_ Because "we'll circle back on that" isn't an outcome ## [Attorneys for Michael J. Madigan petition U.S. Supreme Court to reverse conviction](https://hanania.substack.com/p/attorneys-for-michael-j-madigan-petition) _2026-07-27 · Ray Hanania · Courageous Thought - Ray Hanania_ The former Speaker of the House has been punished by a "perception corruption" that exists in Cook County & Illinois over common political practices in which loyalty is rewarded ## [Fifteen Billion Dollars That Do Not Exist](https://1marcolopez.substack.com/p/fifteen-billion-dollars-that-do-not) _2026-07-27 · Marco Lopez · Power Courier by Marco Lopez_ A cartel forfeiture nobody can collect, Arizona's real trade exposure, and the World Cup capability Jalisco refused to shut down ## [perplexity-agent-mcp: an open-source MCP server for Perplexity’s Agent API](https://constantin.glez.de/posts/2026-07-27-perplexity-agent-mcp-open-source-mcp-server-perplexitys-agent-api/) _2026-07-26 · Constantin Gonzalez · Constant Thinking_ I regularly use the Perplexity API, whether from the command line or by letting Claude use it through an MCP, as a second search engine for its research. That’s why I paid attention when, about a week ago, an email from Perplexity landed in my inbox with the subject line “Your Sonar workload runs better on Agent API.” The pitch: their newer Agent API beats the classic Sonar models I’d been using,… ## [Dean Koldenhoven put principle and morality above his personal interests](https://hanania.substack.com/p/dean-koldenhoven-put-principle-and) _2026-07-25 · Ray Hanania · Courageous Thought - Ray Hanania_ Former Palos Heights Mayor Dean Koldenhoven fought for justice and lost his position when he defended a Muslim request to open a Mosque there in 2000. He spoke of it in Orland Park in 2004 ## [Right from the Middle: How Democratic Socialism is destroying America](https://hanania.substack.com/p/right-from-the-middle-how-democratic) _2026-07-25 · Courageous Thought - Ray Hanania_ Former Congressman Bill Lipinski criticizes the growing influence of Democratic Socialism, specifically by New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani & Congress members Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio Cortez ## [Auto-trade Cross-Exchange Gaps (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/VWkgpZtPpE8G) _2026-07-25 · **Sponsored**_ Find cross-exchange spreads, backtest strategies, and execute automatically with risk controls. ## [Does race politics really help strengthen racial groups?](https://hanania.substack.com/p/does-race-politics-really-help-strengthen) _2026-07-23 · Ray Hanania · Courageous Thought - Ray Hanania_ US Rep. Jesus Garcia had one responsibility, to change the nation's immigration policies & empower Hispanics. Garcia failed. He's the reason two Hispanics have been thrown off the election ballot. ## [Rahm Emanuel will certainly be better on Israeli-Palestine peace than cowardly Harris and political Trump](https://hanania.substack.com/p/rahm-emanuel-will-certainly-be-better) _2026-07-21 · Ray Hanania · Courageous Thought - Ray Hanania_ Anyone raised in Chicago politics knows the saying, in politics, "there are no permanent friends, no permanent enemies." The only thing that is permanent are individual interests. ## [🥳 Issue 1️⃣ 0️⃣ 0️⃣: What I've Learned After 100 Issues](https://askachiefofstaff.substack.com/p/issue-1-0-0-what-ive-learned-after) _2026-07-21 · Ask a Chief of Staff · Ask a Chief of Staff_ On building in public, getting things wrong, and what I believe now ## [Epicenter](https://1marcolopez.substack.com/p/epicenter) _2026-07-20 · Marco Lopez · Power Courier by Marco Lopez_ From the World Cup final to the fab floor, the week our border region became the center of everything, and the fragile trust holding it together. — 145. Evocative, on brand. ## [meet Quinn.](https://materialinterest.substack.com/p/meet-quinn) _2026-07-16 · Kira Mackenzie · Material Interest_ I built an AI chief of staff in 36 hours. She started this morning. ## [Why working with AI agents is so tiring (and what to do about it)](https://constantin.glez.de/posts/2026-07-16-why-working-with-ai-agents-is-so-tiring-and-what-to-do-about-it/) _2026-07-15 · Constantin Gonzalez · Constant Thinking_ Earlier this week, I spent five hours at the WERK1 coworking space in Munich, moving three projects forward at once: the brain dump that would become this blog post, a contribution to an open source project, and a redesign of my blog’s analytics. My AI agents did the heavy lifting. Whenever one of them finished a work package, I reviewed the results, made a few decisions, wrote the next set of… ## [Two Guys on Politics Podcast: Lindsey Graham, Illinois American Water, 4th Congressional Dist battle](https://hanania.substack.com/p/two-guys-on-politics-podcast-lindsey) _2026-07-15 · Ray Hanania · Courageous Thought - Ray Hanania_ Former Congressman Bill Lipinski and award winning columnist Ray Hanania discuss Lindsey Graham's death & hypocrisy to shenanigans by Congress Jesus Garcia in this YouTube video podcast ## [BONUS: Your Board Meeting Isn't a Review. Stop Running It Like One.](https://askachiefofstaff.substack.com/p/bonus-your-board-meeting-isnt-a-review) _2026-07-14 · Ask a Chief of Staff · Ask a Chief of Staff_ Zeck's Robert Wolfe on why the board meeting feels like theater, and how Chiefs of Staff can rebuild it into something worth the time ## [Who builds, who invests, who votes](https://1marcolopez.substack.com/p/who-builds-who-invests-who-votes) _2026-07-13 · Marco Lopez · Power Courier by Marco Lopez_ Toyota heads north, a new housing law opens Arizona to investors, Sheinbaum's security gamble, El Tri's World Cup summer, and the fight over your ballot. ## [Issue 99: Escaping the Executive Presence Trap](https://askachiefofstaff.substack.com/p/issue-99-escaping-the-executive-presence) _2026-07-07 · Ask a Chief of Staff · Ask a Chief of Staff_ Real presence can't be coached into you. It's reclaimed, not performed. ## [At 250, America's next chapter runs through the border](https://1marcolopez.substack.com/p/at-250-americas-next-chapter-runs) _2026-07-06 · Marco Lopez · Power Courier by Marco Lopez_ Marco Lopez on America's 250th, the USMCA going bilateral, an empty Arizona Sonora table, a socialist warning to Democrats, and Mexico's World Cup run ## [History on trial: from the Azteca to the National Palace to Washington's files](https://1marcolopez.substack.com/p/history-on-trial-from-the-azteca) _2026-06-29 · Marco Lopez · Power Courier by Marco Lopez_ Three host nations still alive in the World Cup. A 40-year accountability crisis still unresolved. And a Spanish king who chose commerce over conquest. ## [The Screwdriver or the Swiss Army Knife](https://www.gregraiz.com/blog/screwdriver-or-swiss-army-knife/) _2026-06-26 · Greg Raiz · Greg's Half Ideas_ AI didn't remove the bottleneck in software. It moved it. And most teams aren't ready for where it landed. ## [Issue 98: The First 3️⃣ 0️⃣ Days as a New Chief of Staff](https://askachiefofstaff.substack.com/p/issue-98-the-first-3-0-days-as-a) _2026-06-23 · Ask a Chief of Staff · Ask a Chief of Staff_ One Chief of Staff shares her onboarding experience and where theory meets reality ## [The border doesn't wait for a book deal](https://1marcolopez.substack.com/p/the-border-doesnt-wait-for-a-book) _2026-06-22 · Marco Lopez · Power Courier by Marco Lopez_ A memoir, a stalled extradition, and a World Cup win: this week's border story has three faces ## [You’re in the driver’s seat: will you choose to stay awake with AI?](https://constantin.glez.de/posts/2026-06-22-you-re-in-the-driver-s-seat-will-you-choose-to-stay-awake-with-ai/) _2026-06-21 · Constantin Gonzalez · Constant Thinking_ „Nah ist / Und schwer zu fassen der Gott. / Wo aber Gefahr ist, wächst / Das Rettende auch.” — Friedrich Hölderlin, Patmos (1803) ( Near is, / and difficult to grasp, the god. / But where danger is, grows / the saving power also. ) A few weeks ago, I wrote a post titled Thinking with Claude: why Cyborg writing works better than Centaur writing. In the LinkedIn… ## [Member Exclusive: The New Chief of Staff's Survival Guide to the First 3️⃣ Months](https://askachiefofstaff.substack.com/p/member-exclusive-the-new-chief-of) _2026-06-21 · Ask a Chief of Staff · Ask a Chief of Staff_ A practical playbook for building trust, creating leverage, and delivering impact in your first 90 days ## [War Abroad, Pressure at Home: What It Means for You](https://1marcolopez.substack.com/p/war-abroad-pressure-at-home-what) _2026-06-19 · Marco Lopez · Power Courier by Marco Lopez_ On my way back to Arizona from Washington, D.C., after several days of meetings on trade, security, and cross-border coordination, one thing became clear: the world is shifting faster than most people realize. ## [Who Gets to Be American: The Supreme Court, the Border, and the Latino Shift That Changes Everything](https://1marcolopez.substack.com/p/who-gets-to-be-american-the-supreme) _2026-06-19 · Marco Lopez · Power Courier by Marco Lopez_ This week, Power Courier goes deep on the stories that matter most to our communities right now. ## [This weekend, the U.S. Navy seized an Iranian cargo ship in the Gulf of Oman](https://1marcolopez.substack.com/p/this-weekend-the-us-navy-seized-an) _2026-06-19 · Marco Lopez · Power Courier by Marco Lopez_ This weekend, the U.S.