Instagram’s Higher Purpose

For the instant-sharing photo app, the whole is greater than the sum of its…

The Brave New World For Startups, Musicians, Filmmakers, and Other Artists

The game’s changed. Here’s…

Questionable Travel Tips

Best for those of dubious moral character.

The Cycle of Crony Capitalism

F.A. Hayek’s “The Road to Serfdom”

The Agreeable Contrarian

When Being Different is the Same

Why geeks hate Malcolm Gladwell.  

My Theory

“Peak Technology”

When the bad outweighs the good

Unplugging the Myth

The ad industry’s problematic take on Asian Americans as a “wired” model minority

What New Year’s really means.

Guess what: our calendar is only 431 years old.

While most people using the Western/Gregorian calendar might understandably assume that our calendar is now 2,014 years old, that just ain’t so. It is in fact (as of this writing) only 431 years old…

I am tolerance-intolerant.

Why I hate tolerance.

First of all I always spell it wrong and it gives me the squiggly red line and I have to go back and fix it which throws me off my writing. Second, it’s the lowest level of being a good person. Alright no, the lowest…