Go Salary or Go Founder?

TL;DR Glass half full or half empty doesn't matter when you're enjoying the drink. The Set Up Catching up Jerry Neumann's latest blog post last week on Schumpeter on Strategy something that really caught my eye was this chart, which is cited as from The Illusions of Entrepreneurship. The chart compares employee and entrepreneur income, … Continue reading Go Salary or Go Founder? →

[Content] Diet for 2019

I think I do pretty well already, but I plan to do better. Better content consumption for better thinking. A month or so ago I read a post entitled It's Time to Embrace Digital Nutrition which I thought was well timed given the approaching rolling over of the year. It has thoughts about content ratings … Continue reading [Content] Diet for 2019 →

What Are You Wrong About?

Q: Do you think you're right about everything?A: NoQ: So what are you wrong about?A: ... That simple exchange as a thought experiment is originally from Will Storr and relayed by David McRaney as one great part of a really good discussion on cognitive biases, beliefs, and communication (video below). Those two simple questions and … Continue reading What Are You Wrong About? →

Last Week Last Week

So last week was the last week, of Yieldbot that is. The company that I co-founded 9+ years ago hit the red light. Don't pass go, and definitely don't collect $200. This isn't one of those startup post mortem posts, but I'll probably speak to those lessons individually at some point. For now I just want … Continue reading Last Week Last Week →