The Urban Millennial Lifestyle

There are — and for some time, have been — a lot of dumb, unprofitable business ideas designed to pique the interest of urban millennials (among others), and propped up by venture capital. If you wake up on a Casper mattress, work out with a Peloton before breakfast, Uber to your desk at a WeWork, […]

Little Data

I never really had to think about actual business data until about five years ago. Before that, like a lot of professionals, I dealt with lots of numbers, but none of them actually mattered because they were all basically vanity metrics that never got to the root of anything. I tracked things like open rates […]

What are we even DOING here?

For those of you keeping score, this here marks at least the fifth time I’ve re-assembled and (for lack of a less dramatic word) “relaunched” this site. That includes: several WordPress installations a few years on Tumblr two SquareSpace iterations … and probably some things I’m forgetting. Every time I do this, I try to […]

Why OKRs Kind Of Suck

The last two companies I’ve worked for have used OKRs, a system for company, team, and employee goal setting popularized (and possibly invented, for all I know) by Google. Personally, I’ve been very frustrated by OKRs, and if anything, they’ve made me less productive. I don’t think I was alone, and that’s one of several reasons […]

Thanks, John

John Anderson, my friend and co-worker at Bamboo, passed away from ALS this week. I’ve thought about it a lot — hell, I’ve thought about it a lot since I found out he even had ALS — and while I struggled even talking to him about it, or talking about it with anyone at all, […]

Persecution

I was reading a bunch of posts about how Christian conservatives can/should/will gracefully adapt to a world where their strict definition of behavioral “rightness” isn’t shared by a majority of their fellow citizens. More interesting, accomplished people have fully-baked thoughts about such a complex topic, but instead of talking about those, let’s talk about a […]