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Work. Family. Curiosity.
One field note at a time.

I own Boxer Media, where I help businesses communicate online. This is where I write about everything that informs that work — and plenty that doesn't.

Field Note 014

Location
Long Island, NY
Date
September 2026
Listening To
Wish You Were Here
Current Project
Building this website
Coffee
Too much

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Who's writing this

Matthew Schuller on a beach on Long Island

Long Island shoreline, 2026

Matthew Schuller

Owner, Boxer Media Services Corp. — Long Island, NY

30+ yrs tech & advertising Wix Legend Partner Freemason

I've spent three decades moving between national advertising, enterprise IT, and small-business digital strategy — which mostly means I've learned to enjoy the moment when something broken starts working again.

My brain runs a little differently than most, and I've stopped apologizing for it. ADHD means my desk has four projects open at once and somehow that's how I do my best thinking — I organize in parallel, not in a straight line, and I've built my whole working life around that instead of fighting it.

Outside of work I'm usually listening to Pink Floyd, watching Star Trek or M*A*S*H, chasing down whatever topic has my attention that week, or spending time with my wife Christine and our son William. This site is where all of that overlaps with the work — sometimes directly, sometimes not at all.

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