San Francisco

Quiet on the Set

They were filming a scene for a movie down by Cottage Market on Bush Street. A gaggle of bored extras were milling about on the…

San Francisco’s Existential Collapse

Startups, gentrification, hipsters, millennials, fade the unique…

Sam Altman’s ‘Shoegate’

What can London learn from SF’s startup culture?

The Rose Garden

There is a rose garden in Golden Gate Park in San Francisco. It’s on the north side of the park, or maybe towards the middle…

The Municipal Pier

Sylvia and I often go strolling across the Municipal Pier late at night. We loaf around its swan-neck curve out into the bay…

Tech Bro Bill of Rights

I. No tech bro shall, under any circumstances, take the public transportation intended for commoners. If a tech bro’s…

I interned in San Francisco and was brainwashed

In late May of 2015, I landed in San Francisco with a pair of denim shorts, flip-flops, a Lenovo PC, and zero knowledge of the Bay Area.

Edification

Lenore starts off telling it like this: “There were those ornate cupola-like things on the building top. I wanted to go up there; sit…

A Thank You Note

Jose is a name. Back before I was a CEO, when I was doing a part-time job as a telemarketer, the telemarketing software generated a lot of names like Jose. I pronounced it wrong as “Joe-s”, but people were so forgiving. I mean, they forgave me even though I was a telemarketer, and I was butchering…