I’m humbled and excited by all the positive attention that the redesign of my blog’s been getting these past few weeks and I’m honored by how well the new look has been received by the WordPress community.
After being featured on the WordPress Premiums Showcase, PJ’s Best Of August Picks, and Mark Forrester’s Blog my traffic [...]

I’m not ashamed to admit that I spend an absurd amount of time tinkering in Apple stores with absolutely no shopping agenda. I feel bad for the sales reps, actually. I have a hopelessly expressive face and I must have the look of a kid in a candy store, constantly giving off a “dying to [...]

Professionalism isn’t just about physical appearance or demeanor. It’s a method of interacting with people. Exhibiting professionalism is about respecting people’s time, intelligence and their right to unbiased information via the manner in which you engage them. It requires communicating in a way that minimizes exaggeration and eliminates emotionally charged language or personal opinions about [...]

Over on the AdaptiveBlue Blog Fraser’s posed this question that’s started a good exchange of thoughts:
As digital creeps into all forms of media, and companies adjust their structure and strategy, what’s the correct amount of “digital”, or “technology”, capacity that they should bring in-house?
I’ve thrown my two cents in. Come on over and join the [...]

The following is a transcription of the 2008 commencement speech given by Steve Gilbert at the Lauder Institute of The Wharton School. Steven is the Senior Managing Director and Chairman of SUN Group (USA). He is also Chairman of the Board of Gilbert Global Equity Partners, L.P., a billion dollar private equity fund and Vice [...]

Before I dive into the pros and cons of this book, I think it’s important to acknowledge how significantly the book has impacted the way thousands of Internet publishers use and understand Adsense. At this writing, the book is just over a year old and it has been heralded as an instant classic in the [...]

Where there’s a social buzz around good open source code, there’s opportunity. And where there’s opportunity, there will be entrepreneurs. In fact, digital entrepreneurship is one of the most natural and predictable bi-products of the open-source movement. Although open source die-hards (myself included) associate the open source movement with “freedom”, we should never delude ourselves [...]

First off, congratulations are in order to my friends over at AdaptiveBlue. Not only have they surpassed the 1 million download mark this year, they’ve been recently highlighted by Richard MacManus, Founder of the the influential Read/WriteWeb blog, as one of 10 Semantic Web Apps to Watch.

Also, thanks to Fraser Kelton, Director of Business [...]

In my final year of business school I remember being inundated with a lot of pre-interview advice and prep materials from my professors and from the feel-good folks at the career center. In retrospect I think a lot of it was supposed to serve as some sort of scare tactic - Prepare-them-for-the-worst kind of stuff. [...]

Eliezer Yudkowsky’s response to her reading of a history of Enron’s downfall, The Smartest Guys in the Room…
After I had finally and fully admitted my mistake, I looked back upon the path that had led me to my Awful Realization. And I saw that I had made a series of small concessions, minimal concessions, [...]