random end of march thoughts.

Lacking the clarity to focus on a specific topic, I’ll blog the randoms in my head: 1) When I moved to SF, one of the things that I was most stoked about was being surrounded by ridiculously smart, ambitious people. One of those people is Ramit. To compound his already ridiculous awesomeness, he just released […]

facebook, twitter and corners.

Back in the day, around age 10, I went door-to-door selling greeting cards, candy, and other random things from a catalog. We’re talking big money here: I probably made $2 for every item sold. Things were going well until the day I got the newest catalog in the mail and then canvassed my neighborhood. A […]

attention & value.

One of the reasons I love writing is that it makes me form coherent thoughts. This process sometimes ends up changing how I view a topic. My previous post on what we value has ended up being one of those times. We live in a world of insane inattention. For me it started with AIM back […]

what do we value?

What is it that we value? As a society at large, I’ve heard a lot of candidates: We value our environment. We value our children, Education, Progress, Peace, Health, Knowledge, Kindness. All kinds of stuff. I’ve never thought long and hard about this question. Now that I am thinking about it, these are the kind […]

it’s always the same.

Months ago I looked around me at what was going on in the economy and stock market and it literally gave me tightness in my chest. It was hard for me to concentrate on work, or much of anything. Things that I had read about and worried about were coming to life and the pace […]