Mar
28
Lacking the clarity to focus on any specific topics, 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 able to be surrounded by ridiculously smart, ambitious people. One of those people is Ramit. To compound his ridiculous awesomeness to [...]
Mar
13
Back in the day, around age 10, I went door-to-door selling greeting cards, candies, and other random things out of a catalog. We’re talking big money here: I think I made $2 for every item I sold. Things went well until the day I went out to canvas my neighborhood after receiving the newest catalog [...]
Mar
10
One of the reasons I love writing is that forming coherent thoughts ends up changing my mind. And sometimes my behavior. My previous post on what we value ended up being one of those things. We live in a world of insane inattention. For me it started back in 96 with AIM. You can sign-on [...]
Mar
04
What is it that we value? As a society at large, I’ve heard a lot of suggestions. That we value our environment. That we value our children. Education. Progress. Peace. Health. Knowledge. Kindness. All kinds of stuff. I never really thought long and hard about this question, and now that I’m thinking about it, these [...]
Mar
02
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 [...]