better doing

Toast my f-ing bagel.

This is a post about marketing, believe it or not. “I used to go get bagels and coffees on Saturday mornings with my wife. I would always order a toasted sesame bagel with cream cheese. The bagel always came out […]

better doing

Excuse me but why are you eating so many frogs.

Your “frog” is your big, important, and often unpleasant task. Productivity gurus often promote the strategy of “eating your frog” by forcing yourself to do it first. “All of this has been a long way of saying: if you’re forcing […]

tech, startups, internet

The Seedpocalypse of 2024.

“Whenever there are “too many” of fundraises of one type, the next round becomes the hardest to raise. In 2024, the Series A Crunch has returned. Software companies that have achieved the previous era’s milestone, $1m or more in ARR, […]

tech, startups, internet

Strategies for an accelerating future.

“One of the things I emphasized to [my students] is that no one really knows what current LLMs are capable of, since most of the tests conducted by AI companies focus mostly on coding and testing benchmarks, not real-world applications. […]

oh, chicago

2 shot while alderman camps out to stop violence.

“Ald. David Moore vowed to stay on 73rd Street despite having to leave over the weekend after shots rang out. … “Camping out was his “last resort,” Moore said. “I know what I’ve been doing and, evidently, what I’ve been […]