He's a husband, a father, and a middle school football coach. Colby is the co-founder of the blog, Nerdy Book Club. He co-hosts the monthly Twitter chats #Titletalk with Donalyn Miller and the #SharpSchu Twitter book club with John Schumacher. He is also the co-creator of Nerd Camp. Colby is the editor of The Creativity Project (Little Brown 2018).