Tell me more about this “revenge” concept

In the Wall Street Journal today: Obviously, I immediately thought of my favorite mayor. And with that, I yield the floor.

Actually, Top Gun: Maverick is Bad

I am not a shitposter, I swear. I don’t even really have time to construct inflammatory takes, let alone take abuse for them and somehow turn that into engagement or personal brand or whatever it is people do with internet rage. So when I saw the Top Gun sequel, I kept things to myself. I […]

Elon’s Twitter Will Fail

This is one of those topics that doesn’t seem like it needs me to add to it, as most of the smart, correct things have already been said. Still, I’ve read some odd things from smart people who are missing some of the elephants in the room that make it pretty clear Elon Musk will […]

Why is Easy Business Math So Hard?

Years ago, I was a new-ish employee at a startup that was both (a) 100% set on becoming a massive enterprise software company, and (b) celebrating closing a $20k annual contract with one of the biggest companies in the world. “But wait…” I said, nervously. “How many companies out there actually need our product?” 5,000? […]

Liter of Cola

Without thinking that hard about it (and probably moderating my red hot take as a result), this is one of the best scenes from any movie ever made. (More than a few f-bombs in here, if you’ve got a kid around.) I’ve obviously watched this a million times, but I’ve never really felt obligated to […]

You Fix What You can Reach

Elephants One consistent factor across the now numerous early-stage companies I’ve worked at for the last decade or so is the presence of proverbial “elephants in the room”. Everywhere I’ve been, there has always been something bigger and more fundamentally important than the things we were working on, that everyone senior-enough knew was more important, […]