Clay Collins: former co-founder of Leadpages, former CEO of Nomics, and author of The Interactive Offer. Join the announcements list to stay in the loop.https://claycollins.io/en-ushttps://claycollins.io/blog/what-ai-hasnt-changed/https://claycollins.io/blog/what-ai-hasnt-changed/AI changed the cost of building. It did not change the cost of being wrong. A review of the boring basics, ten years after I stopped writing about them.Thu, 13 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://claycollins.io/blog/i-had-cancer-and-survived/https://claycollins.io/blog/i-had-cancer-and-survived/I was diagnosed with lymphoma in March of 2020 and told almost no one. Five years cured, this is the story, and why cancer survivors need to tell theirs.Thu, 30 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://claycollins.io/blog/welcome/https://claycollins.io/blog/welcome/Clay Collins here. What this site is, where I've been hiding for the last stretch, and what I'm building next. If you want it first, start here.Tue, 21 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://claycollins.io/blog/my-story/https://claycollins.io/blog/my-story/A very old about-page essay, preserved for the archive: growing up on a citrus farm, dropping out five times, giving up on everything, and falling in love with marketing.Sun, 05 Dec 2010 00:00:00 GMThttps://claycollins.io/blog/job-ification-of-your-passion/https://claycollins.io/blog/job-ification-of-your-passion/From the archive of The Growing Life (2008): the myth that money follows passion, the danger of soft opportunities, and why you should business-ify your passion instead of job-ifying it.Fri, 01 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMThttps://claycollins.io/blog/not-being-a-real-person/https://claycollins.io/blog/not-being-a-real-person/From the archive of The Growing Life (2008): on stepping-stone lives, how society manufactures "real people," and the benefits of staying unreal.Fri, 27 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMThttps://claycollins.io/blog/when-crazy-isnt-crazy-anymore/https://claycollins.io/blog/when-crazy-isnt-crazy-anymore/From the archive of The Growing Life (2008): balanced living, like balanced eating, does not happen one day at a time. A case for living in seasons.Mon, 26 May 2008 00:00:00 GMThttps://claycollins.io/blog/alternative-lifestyle-designing/https://claycollins.io/blog/alternative-lifestyle-designing/From the archive of The Growing Life (2008): needing very little money and status is more liberating than having lots of money and status. On baselining and the rabbit hole tax.Wed, 21 May 2008 00:00:00 GMThttps://claycollins.io/blog/quitting-things-and-flakiness/https://claycollins.io/blog/quitting-things-and-flakiness/From the archive of The Growing Life (2008): unwanted commitments are the #1 cause of your productivity problems, and the case for aggressively quitting things.Sat, 05 Apr 2008 00:00:00 GMThttps://claycollins.io/blog/healthy-wealthy-and-dead/https://claycollins.io/blog/healthy-wealthy-and-dead/From the archive of The Growing Life (2008): the case against forcing yourself to become an early riser, covering chronotypes, sleep debt, and the myth of morning virtue.Sat, 16 Feb 2008 00:00:00 GMT