Editorial Independence and Money

Like any normal reader, I have mixed and varied reactions to the things posted on Deadspin, a venerable and popular blog presumably about sports but more about… things. However, I do not have mixed feelings about whether Deadspin should exist, or whether it has written, reported, and uncovered some truly incredible things in addition to […]

The Clueless Majority

It’s been an interesting couple of years for minority-majority relations. So many of the different have/have-not dividing factors in American society — gender, race, wealth, geography, even technical knowledge — seem to be chippier, more emotional, and increasingly called out by people on the less advantaged side. Sometimes it’s because the situation for the people […]

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 […]