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I write 10 ideas a day to exercise my “idea muscle.” The idea of the “10 ideas” exercise is not to produce good or bad ideas but just to exercise the creativity muscle. To become an idea machine. They don’t have to be business ideas. Or actionable ideas. It’s just exercise. It’s just to get […]

My dad became a broken man. His business zeroed out, his life savings were gone, he stopped sleeping. When nothing else worked, he went on lithium to stabilize the depression. He cried in super markets, at parent teacher conferences, in front of me. He wanted me to come home for Thanksgiving. It was my final […]

Bono stepped into the elevator of the hotel with four of his friends. I stepped toward the back. Last night, I spoke at Scribd about the habits of billionaires. I wonder if they eat breakfast. I imagined my next taste of bacon. Mmmm. The three of us already in the elevator moved over and made […]

“My spouse is a narcissist.” “ABC is a sociopath.” I hear this all the time. In society we’ve gotten into the habit of using terms casually that actually have a much more serious meaning. So I asked Lori Gottlieb to break down the what “narcissist” and “sociopath” actually mean. Check out the video below for […]

I plagiarized. I stole from another text, word for word, and I did not give credit. The article I wrote was shared everywhere and got millions of page views. I did this several times. Many times. I still do it. Nobody notices. I was writing for TechCrunch, a blog about entrepreneurship. I wrote about the […]

“Why don’t you ever talk about climate change on your podcast?” It was Christmas night. Full house at the club. I just had done a standup set for 60 minutes and did a little Q&A afterwards. At first I was thinking of a real reason. I was thinking how my wife hides the plastic straws […]

I haven’t written in 24 hours. I feel sick now. Like my brain is empty. Like maybe my brain has decided it will never write again. Like maybe I’m a failure now. All I’ve wanted to do for the past 30 years is write every day and now it’s finished. I can’t even feed my […]