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Hey Twitter, Buy Kik. Love, Brad

Twitter is gearing up for an IPO. Folks are looking for some liquidity and Twitter is looking to diversify their revenue streams. After all, nobody wants to repeat that Facebook pre IPO roadshow where their lack of a mobile strategy nearly screwed everything up. Facebook…

Why Google Music Is Better Than Great

Google’s done a lot lately that is out of touch with not being evil but at its core Google is still intent on breaking down silos (as long as its not their ad network) and giving motivated people the power to fight back.

Quick Thoughts on Medium

Last week, Evan Williams wrote about building a new business model for publishing, and the human cost of changing course. Undoubtedly, Medium has loads of cash and talent left that will continually delight us. However, I have persisting, serious doubts in a text-based media world.

Energy and Food — Fixing the Economy

I’ve read some fantastic blogs on oil prices as of late that have inspired some bloggable thoughts of my own. For quite sometime I’ve thought that energy and food systems must be disrupted in order for significant societal progress to occur. Clearly fossil fuels…

A Better Spring Game

Have you played college football? If not, let me tell you a little secret: football practice in the Spring is the worst.

Seriously.

Fall camp is really brutal, but there’s an end goal. In Spring Ball your only goal is to be done with Spring…

Wisdom from Dylan Meier

Cleaning out my car this morning, I found a quote from Dylan that rang especially true with me.

Dylan would have been 30 years young last Friday. He was wise well beyond his years.

I’m truly grateful to have the family I have. Seeing…

Once a gay bar, America has devolved into a Chili’s