Back in 2015, I wrote a blog post called Dropbox: the First Dead Decacorn. At the time, it was the most widely shared take I’d ever written. I learned several… Read more Everything is Amazing, But Nothing is Ours →
If I told you about a piece of consumer electronics technology that: A billion+ people own and use every day Has changed those people and their world in some pretty… Read more The Audio Revolution →
In this month’s interview special, I’m really grateful to have Brent Beshore join us to share his life’s work and mission at adventur.es. Brent’s business is Being a Good Owner. He and his firm discover, buy, and own (for the long run) SMBs who do something really well, and whose founder / CEOs are looking to put the business in good hands when they turn to the next phase in their life. I got acquainted with Brent initially through Twitter, and over the past couple months I’ve been lucky to… Read more An Interview with Brent Beshore of adventur.es →
I get asked pretty frequently for writing tips, and usually I don’t have anything useful to say except for the Pottery Teacher story (see tip #5). But not anymore: here’s… Read more Five Writing Tips →
Dr. Clay Christensen, author of The Innovator’s Dilemma and inventor of Disruption Theory, is one of the rare people to be revered as a Business Prophet by both tech leaders and management… Read more Disruption Theory is Real, but Wrong →
If Netflix is a genius aggregator with all the subscribers, the best data, and the most focus on long-term compounding… then what’s the deal with this ransom payment they just… Read more Netflix, Positional Scarcity and the Red Queen’s Race →
We have to talk about WeWork again! So I guess they’re postponing the IPO after all, now that we’ve spun the roulette wheel and landed on “too toxic to handle”… Read more The Founding Murder and the Final Boss →
One problem I think about a lot (as a clear non-expert) is how land use and transportation patterns are evolving into a new kind of inequality wedge in North American… Read more Why I don’t love Light Rail transit →
