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I know exactly what I’m going to do. Don’t tell anyone. I’m going to  put on a ski mask, find where they live in Brooklyn, show up at their door when they leave for work about six in the morning, and hit them with a baseball bat.  I might not even wear a ski mask. […]

I haven’t written in 24 hours. I feel sick now. Like my brain is empty. Please, Mr. Blank Paper on my screen (or maybe you are female and refusing to talk to me) just sculpt out some words so that I can say the writer’s block is over and I can hit “Save Draft” and […]

We were about to convince a bunch of Arab sheikhs that their investment in our VC fund was still worth something and maybe they should invest more. It was 2001. About a few months before our biggest investor shut us down. Until then there was still a vague hope that we were good at what […]

I almost killed both my kids yesterday by accident. Then, later, I had no money to pay for a meal we had already eaten. On the way to my oldest daughter’s singing performance, my tire blew out. It didn’t go flat. It blew out. It was as if it had been shot from a gunman […]

The other day I got an interesting question via email. A girl I know would like to marry a billionaire. She’s tired of the hassle. She lost a lot of weight (she sent before and after pictures), she signed up for sugardaddy.com and other sites like that, and she started getting messages. But still nobody […]

I haven’t gotten a cold in almost three years. This is not bragging. I’m not the healthiest person in the world. It’s just fact. Every year of my life from the age of one until three years ago I’d get a cold 2-4 times a year. It was horrible. My nose would run, my throat […]

If you’ve just given someone your business card then you failed. If you have a business card you might be about to fail. Nobody cares what’s on it. I throw out all business cards. I’ve written before about self-publishing but more than the “why” and “how” (although I add more info about this below than […]