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  This is my biggest one of these yet. I may start breaking them into two. Saturday and Sunday posts. Thanks everyone for asking questions. I take some of the questions from the Twitter Q&A I hold from 3:30-4:30 EST and give expanded answers in these Saturday posts. WHEN SOMEONE YOU LOVE IS DEPRESSED @Unpacktherat […]

I cheated. When I was in college I took six courses a semester and then worked another 20-30 hours a week to pay for my bills (on top of the debt I was incurring). Often I had to miss classes because I had a job that I had to go to. One time I showed […]

[This was a guest post I did over the weekend at TechCrunch]. — There was a girl at the party, Ona, who then started telling me how she met her current boyfriend. She just simply told him she liked him. I was insanely jealous right then of this guy. Here was this beautiful, hysterically funny […]

I was going to go out of business or get sued. I had just started my fund of hedge funds and on our fourth month in business our main investor said, “I’m going out of business and I need my money back.” Apparently he had never told HIS investors that he was putting money in […]

Summary and more in depth answers from this Thursday’s Twitter Q&A. Every Thursday from 3:30-4:30 I’m around on Twitter answering any questions about anything. Even stuff I have no clue on. Try me. HOW DO I GET OVER INTERVIEW ANXIETY Michael Kane (@unionkane) asks: What are your tips for interviewing? I always seem to choke […]

I think I amputated my arm on this blog over this past year.  At one point Henry Blodget asked me, “what happened to you?” because everything in my writing turned upside down. One of my neighbors asked me last January, “are you about to kill yourself or something? Every day I do surgery on myself. […]

The man was crying in my office.  He was interviewing to be head of sales at my company. We made websites for entertainment companies. It started out differently. He had come in confident. He wasn’t tragic yet and the mythology of all of our success still permeated the room. “How come you are no longer […]