Essays

• Why media companies should be direct to consumer It doesn't matter what trend you chase, growth hack you engineer, or platform you build on.
• Startup lessons from the Dead What can the Grateful Dead teach us about building startups? More than you'll ever know.
• The arrival fallacy: What it feels like to sell your company It should have been one of the best days of my life. And yet on the day the deal closed, I felt depleted.
• Launch day Launch day always brings some unique feelings. One chapter closes, and countless others begin. There is anxiety. There is relief. There is possibility.
• Making things and putting them on the internet Last year, a friend who runs a middle school in Red Hook, Brooklyn invited me to speak to a group of eighth graders at their career day. My