Writing

"Let the products sell themselves... fuck advertising, commercial psychology ... psychological methods to sell should be destroyed." - The Minutemen, Shit From An Old NotebookWe have enough data now to realize that display advertising on the Internet doesn't work. Some [...]  Read more

Today is American Censorship Day, so named because there is legislation working its way through Congress that would materially harm innovation and impede speech.You can read about why so many of us feel so strongly that this legislation is particularly [...]  Read more

My friend Mike White told me the other day that he uses the photo sharing service Instagram because it makes him happy. That stuck in my head.So I remembered that the mission statement for the Cheezburger Network is "5 minutes [...]  Read more

Chris Poole, founder of Canvas, "a place to share and play with images" gave an amazing talk the other day, Self-Expression through Social Media, you can see it below:Chris speaks about how identity intersects with the forms and methods of [...]  Read more

In real life I am who I am. As Boon and Watt once wrote: "Real names be proof."But does a name, a real name, an identity, capture the full richness of personal self-expression? I'm not sure it does - indeed [...]  Read more

My friend Anthony recently wrote about a six step process he uses to determine whether a new idea he finds out about, or a new company someone is starting, or a new product being released, is interesting to him.He emailed [...]  Read more

"The fitness function of a venture capitalist — meaning the metrics of performance, the report card — is pretty pure. You show up with money, and one way or another more money has to come back than goes in." Bing [...]  Read more