Hubris & the Meaning of Life

This post is a follow up on my previous post: A Rigged Game, which itself was a response to Jordan Cooper's Full of Potential = Full of Shit… Jordan has responded to my post and now we're locked in an epic debate re: the Meaning of...

Startup Lessons for the Proto-Founder

I started SpeakerText in October 2008 during the financial apocalypse. No one funded us. No one was gonna fund us. And I’m definitely a nobody. We launched in January 2010 after burning through just $4k of cash. While I’m still mostly a clueless hack,...

Mental Toughness

Back in 2004, before I lived in New York City or attended Columbia or even dreamed of starting a company, I fought wildfires for the Modoc Interagency Hotshot Crew. Hotshot crews are the US Forest Service’s equivalent to the Marine Corps: the elite infantry in...

A Rigged Game

I wrote this post as a comment in response to Jordan Cooper's original post, entitled: Full of Potential = Full of Shit….Little Story: I went to Catholic school my whole life. My sophomore English teacher was this awesome redheaded old lady named Ms...