The Clueless Majority

It’s been an interesting couple of years for minority-majority relations. So many of the different have/have-not dividing factors in American society — gender, race, wealth, geography, even technical knowledge — seem to be chippier, more emotional, and increasingly called out by people on the less advantaged side. Sometimes it’s because the situation for the people […]

The Urban Millennial Lifestyle

There are — and for some time, have been — a lot of dumb, unprofitable business ideas designed to pique the interest of urban millennials (among others), and propped up by venture capital. If you wake up on a Casper mattress, work out with a Peloton before breakfast, Uber to your desk at a WeWork, […]

Little Data

I never really had to think about actual business data until about five years ago. Before that, like a lot of professionals, I dealt with lots of numbers, but none of them actually mattered because they were all basically vanity metrics that never got to the root of anything. I tracked things like open rates […]

What are we even DOING here?

For those of you keeping score, this here marks at least the fifth time I’ve re-assembled and (for lack of a less dramatic word) “relaunched” this site. That includes: several WordPress installations a few years on Tumblr two SquareSpace iterations … and probably some things I’m forgetting. Every time I do this, I try to […]

Quarters

(new 2023 editor’s note): I finally scraped this out of an old SQL file. It’s not actually very good, but I’ve been writing schlocky dork prose for 35 years now and ending sentences with prepositions for almost as long, so I’ve just decided to stop being embarrassed and celebrate the late-20s version of myself. (original […]