In 2013, I left a company with 200,000+ employees, where my office alone had 5,000 team members, and my starting class was over 100. I joined a company of four people where we all worked remotely. …

(The Gap, by Ira Glass). — Bob Dylan’s first album contained 11 cover songs. Richard Pryor started his standup career doing an imitation of Bill Cosby. And Hunter S. Thompson re-typed The Great Gatsby just to get the feel of writing a great novel. No one starts out original. This whole bit is rip’d from Ira…

If you were lucky enough to play Age of Empires growing up, this scene should look familiar to you: If you were deprived of this joy, the short explanation is that you’re dropped on this scene, and you have some resources and then you go on to explore the map…

Second title: Why building a subscription business is fucking hard: A few years ago, I wanted to compile a bunch of photos to put a video together. There was a bunch of free softwares out there to help me do this, but one specific one was really good (Animoto). At…

Let’s play this game.

Hans Rosling has been going around the world and telling people that the world is becoming better. It is. Child mortality is lower, real GDP / person has increased, and world literacy rates have increased to now 80%+. There is a sleight of hand that he pulls that I’m not…

Poverty and income inequality in large part depend on where you draw the line (“poverty line”). There are some problems with the whole fucking premise of this thing: It creates a sense of “them” and “us”. The poor vs the non-poor (collectively, the “Agents”). It implies an individuality whereby the…

The paradox of capitalism and progressive taxation Capital accumulation is a central theme in capitalism. It means you save money so you can be the awesome you. I’m talking about the baker in you. The artist in you. The entrepreneur in you. Not the other you that is saving money…

I want to grow up to be a corporation I want to reclaim out of being human and be a corporation. A corporation sells shit, but in order to make those sales, it endures costs. Costs like rent, marketing, research and development, etc. Then it will have some left over…