A story about spoons and budgets. — I’d once read about a designer who’d made his life’s mission the creation of one object. I think he was Japanese, which was interesting given his fascination and commitment to cutlery that wasn’t even natively common in his country. His passion centered upon a singular focus: making the perfect spoon. …

When I think on the sort of culture we desperately owe it to our teammates, partners, customers and organizations to bring to the table — I always come back to curiosity. …

I have seen founders live and die by their spreadsheets. As if all of the meaning and promise of their goals and desires were accurately predicted by a series of small numbers in a series of small cells. The meticulously crafted formulae migrating data from sheet to sheet representing guarantees…

Somewhere between Silicon Valley and Silicon Valley. Between Steve Jobs and Tim Cook. Between the first Uber we hailed and the last Lyft, wherein the driver was nice but we felt gross at how we knew this Lyft Line was only worth about $4.50 to him. Between jeans and tees because damn-the-Man…

I asked a question to Reddit’s r/startups recently, wondering how the community overcame the challenge of transience when working on startups, and often software or web-based products in particular. …