Tech Giants on a Political pedestial
I’m obsessed with Podcasts, especially news podcasts. Here’s what I listen to The Economist Planet Money (NPR) WallStreet Journal This American Life (arguably news….) Bloomberg Radio Eco-environmentalists Ted-Talks One thing I’ve noticed….people tend to hate Giant Traditional Corporations like WalMart and Exxon but give a lot of Tech Giants a pass. Whenever you hear about […]
Back from the Beach!
Just got back from an AMAZING Company retreat at Long Beach Island. We flew out the entire Chicago office, and the NYC + Chicago family met altogether for the first time in a LONG time. The company probably hasn’t all been in the same place in over….a year? Probably since the launch of the Chicago […]
Old Friends
Dom and I just got back from an incredible wedding with friends we’ve known for 2/3rds of our lives. Bill, Tony, Dan, Johns, etc – these people are the core of what I aspire as genuine friendship. We’ve all gone through our struggles, and years go by without seeing each other, but every time we […]
I failed.
I hate failing. There seems to be a worship of failing in the Tech community that boggles my mind. I don’t “get it.” Fail fast, fail often, failing helps you learn, etc. No, failure = losing in my book. Anyone competitive hates to lose. It just isn’t in me to revel in losing. But back […]
Remember that Life’s a roller coaster
Hey it’s my 30th b-day! Every year on my birthday I had certain rules #1 – Never work on your birthday #2 – Get a great cowboy hat and wear it all day. Never stop wearing the hat #3 – Start drinking when you want to, stop when you’re broke. #4 – Hijack your friends […]
A + B does not equal C
There’s a conceit that if you add two variables, that the product will always equal a third predictable variable. In business, this is simply not true. If you take variable A, and add it to Variable B, then the two produce a by-product while simultaneously creating a feedback loop on each other and mutating the […]
Back from the Vegas convention!
Sorry for the lag in the posts! I just got back from Vegas, demo-ing D&T’s latest product BuildersBidNetwork.com at the ICSC convention. Here’s what I learned at the convention 1.) People tend to “trust” products over services. I think it’s because products have clear limitations, clear boundaries as to what they can/cannot do. Whereas […]
Post #3 Why civil unrest is inevitable if we don’t create jobs
So here’s the quick sketch of reality in America: 13 million people without jobs (including the low participation rate) – 8.1% unemployment rate in America 2 Trillion Dollars of Corporate and Private Sector earnings, sitting on the sidelines, collecting no interest. If you invested all 2 Trillion dollars into creating 13 million jobs, you’d have […]
Post #2 – The Job, Jobs, and Jobbers
So once you convince people/corporations with money to do what they already want to do, then you need to hire people to do those projects. Here’s where you hire people. The people you’re going to hire are young, they’re social-media aware (they’ve been using it for all their adult lives, after all), and they are […]
HOW TO CREATE JOBS {POST #1 “The Current Landscape in America”}
Post #1: The current landscape in America (or anywhere in the modern world, really) In 2009 New York was going to hell in a handbasket. Century-old firms were gone within a few weeks – Bear Stearns, Lehman Bros, etc., the stock market was in a free-fall, people were talking about the end of world, MSNBC […]