What You Need To Know About Managing Engineers

A guide for non-engineers

Engineering is unique among professions in that it is very common for engineers to be managed by non-engineers. In other words, while an engineer’s first level manager was likely…

Social Media as Social Control

Can we cut through the noise?

The Leverage of Being a Good Person

Relationships are leverage. If you give value to someone else first, you have leverage. It’s as…

10 Tips for Curating Viral Content 

Confession: I used to look down on anyone who thought they could create “viral” content for the…

“Being creative is about having fun”

a.k.a. how to overcome the stress of being creative and have fun…

Why I BBM

Ten reasons the multi-platform messaging service should be your go-to form of mobile…

How Taking a Pay Cut Saved My Career

Chris Gallo

“Most people are not all that happy. The majority…

Why your Business Card is like a kiss

Six Rules to Remember Before “Kissing” Someone

7 Top Resources Of Web Font Typography

 Super Useful Tools for Better Web Typography

Five Overrated Places in San Diego

You heard this place was dope

Glen Greenwald, Pierre Omidyar, Walt Mossberg, Kara Swisher, and David Pogue walk into a bar.

Traditional media has taken a few hits these past weeks.

The Guise of Gospel Given to the Greats

They’re no different than you, here’s how they got where they…

Patent Trolls: Major Contributors to a Stagnant Economy

A Tale of Two Tribes.

As The Washington Redskins were flourishing in the 20th Century, Native…

Wendy’s — Missed Marketing Opps & Piss on Dave: A Case Study.

You could have sold me a Baconator…

My Day in Prison

(aka the Day I met “Orange is the New Black’s” Piper Kerman)

Have you watched or read Orange is the New Black, Piper Kerman’s memoir about her 15-month incarceration in a federal correctional facility? I’m slightly obsessed with the…

2 Reasons Why You Are Invisible To The Opposite Sex

You're missing out on love everyday.

Why I’m blacking out all personal media

Turn off the oven, this turkey is basted

Kids’ happiness and a risky career choice

I’ve got two kids, 3 & 5, and a good job. How important is their happiness to my decision to make a risky career choice?

Answer:

Right to the Babymaker

I don’t want to have kids.

There. I said it. Lately a lot of people seem to be asking, so I thought I’d save everyone the trouble and just come right out with it. Most people are surprised to hear me say, “Nope, no kids for me!” And I just continue to be…

Sociability > Profitability

“A man’s true wealth is the good he does in the world.” — Mohammad

Sandwich Wisdom

What I learned about fear in the lunch line.

Too Much Time

Are idle hands such a bad thing?

x+y x infinity = GOD?

Why our theories get in the way of true theology

An Upstate Lesson on Sprawl and Economic Disaster

Urban sprawl is not only detrimental to the…

Don’t Let Finances Break You

Money. The one thing invented by Man that has brought so much happiness and sadness at the same time. The one…

The TL;DR Tragedy

What the heck are we doing!?

Investment and the element of Risk (Part 2)

Where we discuss the concept of fragility

Think of fragility as the “breakability” of a particular thing, whether it’s an object or a whole system.A fragile object or system is increasingly sensitive…

Why and how vs. how and why

The road is only as hard as you choose to make it

We all want to know why not how. Give us the why and we’ll work out the how. The best how if not for you but for us. But often we both benefit when we know the why. Don’t…

Ten things that make me kind of sad although they probably shouldn’t

1. Shopkeepers smoking by the door of their…

Why I chose not to vote

Trinidadian politics is a joke, parties bashing one another by bringing goats onto the stage, airing dirty laundry of old friends, its ridiculous and stupid seeing big, grown “educated” people make fools of themselves.

Requiring Non-Competes Is A Sign That You Can't Compete

Need a non-compete to protect your super secret hush-hush world changing project? Think again. I’m not saying I’m the smartest, most experienced investor or entrepreneur in the room, but any new company that came to me saying they…

Make up your mind!

Why I changed my posting place for longer writing. Again.

This is not meant to be a criticism of Posthaven (where I did blog up until today) as a service. My experience with the service was fantastic, aside from a few server issues…