Introvert and Antisocial are not the same. 

And why they are not a as bad as you may think

The Inherent Weakness of Likes, Ratings and Medium Recommendations

A data scientist’s perspective on…

Myers-Briggs at the Movies

How the Well Known Test Can Help Create Believable Characters

The Magical Matrix: How A Paradigm Shift Transformed My Adult Life

From Concept, Through Evolution…

Medieval Icelandic Sagas Are Social Networks Like Facebook and Twitter

The network of links between…

The Four Pillars of Venture Capital

Venture Capital is an interesting business. My friends ask me questions like ‘what is VC’, ‘what do VCs do all day’, so I set out to simplify VC into its core elements.

How To Be The Best Public Speaker On The Planet

So, this is Medium.

I’m feeling pretty trendy right now. Sitting in a Starbucks. On a Macbook Air. iPhone and leather wallet I bought on Etsy in…

“Personal Brands” are Only Killing Lifestyle Journalism

Gapelian brainstorming sessions

The Third Wave of E-Reading

Project Gutenberg digitized their 1000th book in 1997. If you wanted to actually read one of their ebooks…

Why Rent Control is Important to SF

And why it isn’t what’s driving rents up

The rumblings have begun, and they’re starting to trickle forward into the discourse. “San Francisco would be cheaper without rent control.” It’s uttering forth from the lips…

On Impermanence

or How to Stop Worrying and Love Humanity

Whales, Cars, Law, Technology, and You

I don’t remember exactly where or when, but I came across a fact which boggled my mind.

from Transaction Company to Community Company

Community First Commerce Second

When you study the journey Google have embarked upon you can see Google are evolving from a transaction company based on search and advertising to a community company based…

The New Yo Mama

25 handy insults for today’s modern jerk

The Art of Acting and the Acting of Art

How the correlation between the two can benefit the…

A Few of The Things I Want Every Young Man To Know

Advice I’ve cherished or wished I’d known

5 Things to do in SF but not tell your friends about.

1. Go to the SF Playhouse: an awesomely intimate theater that shows some of the best off-broadway shows of the last few seasons.
2. Eat Anthony’s cookies: Made fresh and they are incredible. Can’t go wrong with any of…

Silk Road’s DPR Arrested; Assets Siezed

or why you shouldn’t buy your drugs online

 Which comes first? The most important project, or the most distracting one?

Maybe we need to consider…

Dread Pirate Roberts is the real life Heisenberg!

Short Girl Defense

Feeling insecure about your under average height?

Don’t Be Yourself

Yeah. I said it.

Is Working for Start-Ups Really Riskier?

There are lot of aspects of working for a startup that make it seem like a great idea. It…

Tech startups aren’t the only ones changing the world

You know those iconic companies that just ooze their values? Not only have they taken the time to craft a set of core values, but they’ve made it an even bigger point to publicize and, then, distribute them.

A Healthy Shake-up In Health Care

Is this the storm before the calm?

Fuck It, Nation Ready to Govern Through Rock, Paper, Scissors

Five ways to liven up your autumn photos

Here in the northern hemisphere, autumn is upon us, which means that we’ve already started to see some of the red, orange, and yellow colours of the season crop up. Marketers and advertisers know how to appeal to our autumnal eye, sprinkling these bright…