A Nation of Writers
I stumbled across a very interesting stat the other day: 24 million adults in the United States consider themselves creative writers but less than 5% have ever been published anywhere. 5% is 1.2...
View ArticleThe Future of Publishing is … 3D Boobs?
The press release rocketed across the wires. Nearly instantaneously every gossip and celebrity rag from Miami to LA weighed in on the announcement. Twitter was …. well, a-twitter with the hype. Even...
View ArticleWhy Bother Starting a Company?
I’ve had dozens and dozens of different jobs in my life. I’ve suffered through the drudgery of dead-end work. I’ve had bosses who made third-world dictators look fuzzy and cute by comparison. I’ve...
View ArticleSuddenly, Everyone is an Expert
[We] find the results of last week’s primaries especially gratifying in that … the cocksure pundits of both parties, who pride themselves on their infallible ability to read the political tea leaves,...
View ArticleLiterary Agents – Your Days are Numbered
This is a warning: Within 5 years 50% of the literary agencies in business today will no longer exist. If you’re currently in the profession — and your client roster doesn’t read like the New York...
View ArticleThe Cost of Having Employees
Hiring employees is getting more and more costly. Recently, as I noted in a Seattle 2.0 post, the State of Washington is not making matters better. They recently announced a 12% increase in Workers’...
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Playing with Instagr.am
I’m late to the game when it comes to Instagr.am – but I absolutely love it’s ability to transform shitty little iPhone photos into decent pictures, worthy of sharing with friends and relatives. What...
View ArticleDynamically Referencing Named Routes in a Helper
We recently ran into a problem where we needed to create a helper that would create a set of styled links. It was important that the link for the ‘current’ page be styled differently. And this helper...
View ArticleThe Ballad of Johnny Guitar
For the past 60 months running, Amy Hempel‘s The Harvest has been the most-read piece on Pif Magazine. Each and every month the story accounts for slightly more than 5% of all traffic to the site....
View ArticleThe Trouble With Tumblr
Back in the summer of 2000 when I was working at Bazillion (now defunct) we began tossing around the idea of offering our customers “video email”. The company had positioned itself as a...
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Thoughts on Interviewing (Or, How to Make Great Hires)
I feel interviewing is one of the biggest challenges that anyone in a management position is going to undertake. Getting the right people on board is paramount. And getting it wrong can have...
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Investing Out Loud
I feel the need to start documenting what I invest in and why. I’ve been investing in one form or another since I was about 13 and started buying silver ingots and medallions from a local coin shop in...
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Stock Investing Methodology
My investment methodology for stocks depends upon a couple of things: how much am I willing to lose on the investmentwhat is my level of affinity for either the company or their productwhat do the...
View ArticleWeek in Review: 2022-09-25
What happened last week? In a week when stocks are diving and buying the dip is backfiring, here’s what is happening here: APA 9/23 Call @ $40 was assigned. I had sold a covered call the week before...
View ArticleBuying the Dip vs. DCA
Or… why ignoring most investment advice found online is a good strategy. There are thousands of self-proclaimed financial gurus online. I am not one of them (neither self-proclaimed, nor a guru). But...
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Week in Review: 2022-10-07
Well …. that was a … something. What happened last week? Everything. Everywhere. And all at once. Seriously. What was that?! We went into the week with the markets down, with September ending lower by...
View ArticleWeek in Review: 2022-10-21
What a difference two weeks can make. Last time I wrote about how the week went, I had bought to close a bunch of covered calls I had previously sold short to prevent them from being called. This...
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Selling Cash-Covered Puts
Selling Cash-Covered Puts I mostly use Robinhood for option trades. Though I do trade some options in my E*TRADE Roth account, I’ll describe what I do when in Robinhood. Assume I’m interested in...
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SoLo Funds vs. Prosper
I’ll get the obvious point out of the way immediately: while both SoLo Funds and Prosper are P2P lending services, they shouldn’t be considered direct competitors. From my experience they cater to...
View Article24 Films for 2024
In the past I’ve heavily focused on aspirational goals each new year – goals that push me outside of my comfort zone, or are all about achieving something somewhere along the way I thought would be...
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