Apple’s Dirty Little Secret: Its Software Sucks

Water Wars: Coming Soon to a State Near You

Or your own state.

Why aren’t more entrepreneurs addressing our water problems? We have them. The Colorado River is drying up, and the claims on it are growing. Pretty soon we won’t have any groundwater left to pump.You can…

Paris and Periscope: The Salvation of Twitter

After the Paris murders, I woke up this morning and immediately went to Twitter…

How to Be Successful at Crowdfunding

Now that Atmotube, the first wearable personal air quality monitor, has hit its IndieGoGo funding goals, Vera Kozyr, Igor Mikhnenko and I are being asked often for our advice on how to run a crowdfunding campaign. I’m going to try to give this our best collective…

Ask Your Mother

for Lena Dunham

I graduated from Cornell in 1962, before Roe v. Wade. I got a posh but poorly paying job at the Macmillan Company on downtown Fifth Avenue. It was my first full time job, and I was a novice at everything from work ethic to women’s place in society.

My Day in Court

My faith in the justice system is restored. I had my first day in court ever this afternoon, defending myself on my Dog at Large charge. I brought Bruce, my shit-tzu mix and one of my co-defendants with me. I had earlier been offered a plea deal of $495 and decided to turn it down because I thought…

I Found It At the Movies

This weekend I saw two movies. It was the first time in a long time that I’d done that, and in fact I rarely go to…

Behind the Scenes at Atmotube’s IndieGoGo Campaign

Chris Stiffler, a young entrepreneur with asthma who was working on the problem of asthma triggers, died of an asthma attack almost two years ago, leaving behind a wife, two young children, a mother and a brother, and a dream of being able to…

Native Advertising: Is it the Future of Publishing?

At this moment, native advertising only accounts for 5% of digital ad spend, although from the amount of ink it’s gotten and its prominence on conference agendas you’d have thought it was much more. Native is only at the beginning of its…