In the last post about making f*ck you money online, Duncan Longshaw asked a really, really great question that I didn’t feel I could best answer in a Comment response:
“Is bigger necessarily the way to go though?
Beyond a certain point, I’d personally rather work less time on the business, than try and make billions. If […]

When I think of what Jason Calacanis’ backyard might look like, I envision a circus-like atmosphere wherein a One-trick Pony is tethered to a well filled with people from the 1990’s.  And in these visions of mine, Jason likes to go to his well often, untether his pony, saddle up, ask the earliest Internet users […]

I have a new rule and it’s working out great.  Before I start a new startup, joint venture, or site, I make everyone else involved watch this clip of Kevin Garnett gaming up.  This is the type of focus, confidence, humor, and chip on your shoulder you need before you go live to the web.

All […]

People keep calling, IM’ing, and emailing to see if I’m ever going to post again, so I thought I’d pop smoke for a few minutes.  I somehow let myself…nay, steered myself…into a situation where I’m chin deep in development work, so my free time to come on here and lob SCUDs at people has been […]

I got an invitation to speak in a closed session about “Adversarial Information Retrieval” at a major university.  I don’t know about you guys, but that may be the single coolest description of what we do.  It has a very “007 Meets Sun Tzu” feel to it and I’m adopting it immediately.
There are so many […]