Jan 23, 2017How to Use Both Your Wits in a StartupIt’s good to be a robot entrepreneur. Being all logic and no emotions, you can make hard decisions with ease. You hire the right people based on the correct metrics. You make difficult calls with the deftness of Occam’s Razor. You fire poor performers without any emotional baggage. …Psychology6 min readPsychology6 min read
Oct 25, 2016Should I Pursue My Passion or Business?What if they lead in opposite directions? — The best advice I ever received: “Do what you love, in the place you love, with people you love,” said my friend Brad Feld. Since then, I have relentlessly chased this vision: leaving the company I founded, traveling, giving up most of what I own, and moving to San Francisco. I came here to build a…Housing5 min readHousing5 min read
Published inNewCo Shift·Jul 14, 2016A Gap Year Around the World Taught Me to Appreciate ClichésI am writing to remember what I learned in the last 12 months of our life traveling to 37 countries. I originally wrote this letter of stream of thoughts to myself, but I’ll take the risk of publishing it. …Life Lessons12 min readLife Lessons12 min read
Jun 20, 2016A 3-Step Method for Making the Best Positive Choices in Your LifeThe “Extreme Choice Framework” for living an interesting life — I received a heartfelt question from a friend who is a young, single, software developer, about making a difficult choice. Should he: Return to a startup offering big money? But one that’s burned him out. Travel extensively but spend down his savings? Feels irresponsible. Many of our choices are based…Life Lessons5 min readLife Lessons5 min read
Nov 22, 2015My Family Came to This Country Legally, But We Were Almost DeportedBen is the founder and former-CEO of the Cheezburger Network and co-founder of Circa currently filming drone videos around the world. It’s common for people who live through stressful and traumatic moments to forget them. I was no exception. What I do remember are the phone calls with my immigration…Immigration7 min readImmigration7 min read
Aug 27, 2015I Cheated on My Life Goals and Life Actually Got BetterBefore I started The Cheezburger Network, I’ve kept a public Life Goals list. I published it on my personal site on a whim more than a decade ago, and to my surprise, people have been continuously drawn to it. The kind of things on my list are not groundbreaking. For…Life Lessons4 min readLife Lessons4 min read
Aug 17, 2015How Not to Screw Up Your Bucket ListAfter stepping down from Cheezburger last month, my wife and I decided to spend the next year traveling the world. We started by visiting friends and family to reconnect. We are having a great time reveling in our stories, dreaming of the future, and checking items off our bucket list…Travel5 min readTravel5 min read
Jul 8, 2015How to Jump Into the Deep End of ChangeI’m leaving Cheezburger, Inc., the company I started. — Dear Friends and Fans of Cheezburger, After 8 incredible years, I am stepping down from being CEO of Cheezburger today. I will remain a Board member. Cheezburger’s President and COO, Scott Moore will step in to the CEO role with my full support. Scott has proven to be a skilled…Startup6 min readStartup6 min read
Feb 5, 2015The Transparency Report is the New 404 Hotness.Our entire lives are documented and stored with someone else — our private photos, love letters, sexts, bank details, etc. US and foreign governments, law enforcement, and even other corporations are increasingly demanding this data from our Verizons, Googles, and Snapchats. Cheezburger is not immune from these requests. In response…3 min read3 min read
Jan 13, 2015Overcoming Fear and Getting Things RightNote: This is a repost from benhuh.org YOU ARE HERE On Friday, May 18th 2012 just after sunrise, I stood at the edge of a 150 foot tall natural rock arch in the Moab desert looking over the side, ready to jump. …12 min read12 min read
