What Coke Contains

The Vons grocery store two miles from my home in Los Angeles, California sells 12 cans of Coca-Cola for $6.59 — 54 cents…

How Paypal and Reddit faked their way to traction

When “faking it before making it” actually works

There were several factors that contributed to YouTube becoming the #1 video sharing service on the web. But a lot of initial adoption…

Dee Hock, Founder and CEO Emeritus of VISA on capitalism and spirituality.

Interview by Jon Raymond

Don’t buy a Terraminer

Why Bitcoin Mining is a Sucker’s Bet (right now).

Given the current difficulty, and the rate of increase of difficulty in finding BTC blocks, it now makes more sense to simply speculate on the currency than it does to mine it with…

Platform Thinking: The Future of Work

Building businesses in the age of the internet

Every business is an engine. It needs to do a certain set of things repeatedly to create value. If you haven’t figured out that set of repeated operations, you…

Is “Star Trek” Socialist?

Captain Jean-Luc Picard once said on one of those we’re low on location budget so let’s move over to the 20th century earth sets on the other side of the Paramount lot episodes, “I’m afraid you would find the economics of the 23rd century rather difficult to understand.” That’s…

Stealing Traction: How Youtube, Paypal, StumbleUpon and AirBnB Grew Through Piggybacking

Design patterns in viral growth

One of the key challenges of creating a two-sided network is deciding how to get both sides on…

IKEA, My Nightmare

Kill me now.

IKEA is a frightening place. Especially on a weekend. It reminds me of Jean Paul Sartre’s existential play No Exit. In other words, being in IKEA is like being trapped in hell.

100%: A New Energy Manifesto

How switching out our energy system may be the biggest business…