Blog Category: Uncategorized

  Here’s why Twitter is worth $12 billion or even much more. Because every Thursday from 330-430 PM EST I do a Q&A on Twitter where people ask me stuff and I answer. I answer maybe 150-200 questions in that hour or so each week. Ok, that might only account for $0.38 of Twitter’s market […]

G wrote me last night: “Dear James, I find your posts disturbing and troubling, especially considering your influence and reach. You operate at close to genius level; you are one of life’s winners, a product of Cornell and CMU. But most,if not all, your fan’s are mediocre, and shouldn’t be deluded into thinking they can […]

  (source: xkcd.com) Two people wrote to me very upset about my last article. Everyone on the Internet has to be in agreement. OR ELSE! The first: I had written: “Peace can only come from peaceful people.” But AK wrote: “Really? Is that what stormed the beach at Normandy? Peaceful people? No. Hard men win […]

I don’t think any of the prostitutes were above the age of 18. One girl told me she was sixteen. They were all black. The 16 year old was laughing and sort of skipping around while she was talking to me. They were waiting for the bus to return from Riker’s Island, the prison. This […]

My dad got depressed and would cry in the shopping store, cry at parent teacher conferences, cry while playing chess with me, cry at work, cry all the time. He started a company in 1970 and it went public in, I think, 1984. The day it went public he was worth 5 million dollars on […]