Your Real Problems

(note from the future : this is from back when I was freelancing) “It hurts when I do this.” Well, don’t do that. When I started to put this site together, it forced me to look back on the different people and organizations I’ve tried to help out over the last few years — places […]

Death by Wedding

Does the wedding-industrial complex deserve some of the blame for decline of marriage? Serious Q http://t.co/bvIWNKvlCa via @mattyglesias — davidfrum (@davidfrum) January 7, 2014 Damn skippy it does. I am going to puff out my chest for a minute (so brace yourselves, or move on), but eight years ago (!!!) I was out on the […]

Garage Bands and Agile Development

Last year, me and the other guys in Six Foot Machine put out our first release, (get it here for free!) a ten and a half song album entitled “Monday Night Miracle”. SFM records are fundamentally different creatures than literally all of the other albums I’ve worked on in the past. While I’ve started to […]

About Capital

You know what’s worse than the government wasting money? That money not getting spent at all. Private equity firms are sitting on some $1 trillion in “dry powder,” or uninvested capital from previous fundraising rounds. Like cash-heavy companies in the corporate world, the firms are hoarding more cash, partly because they’re having trouble finding worthy investments amid economic uncertainty […]

The Weakerthans & My Cat

I first heard The Weakerthans in 2002, when we were in school in DC for the semester, working on this record — I mean studying. One of Steve’s roommates convinced us to go with him to a show at the Black Cat, and I figured it would be cool to get out and do something […]

When Product Quality is Inherently Optional

Betanews tries to figure out if anyone’s going to be able to compete with the iPad, and comes up with this piece of analysis. But Google, like Microsoft, doesn’t have a reputation for quality that’s required to compete in this space. This unintentionally hilarious quote tells you pretty much everything you need to know about […]