I finished reading The Facebook Effect by David Kirkpatrick this week and I found it incredibly captivating! I hope to do a larger review later, but in short it covers the company from before inception in Zuckerberg’s dorm room to his more recent World Economic Forum appearences. You may not care about the details of [...]
Samasource might be my favorite new non-profit. Why? Because they bring together the scrapiness of a startup with the social effects of a non-profit. Like charity:water they operate under the model that their “return” is about bringing an American commodity to the global poor. So what is Samasource? It’s pure and (not) so simple social entrepreneurship, using [...]
I recently learned that American Express aka AmEx is launching a new card called the Zync card aimed at 20-30 year olds. This piqued my interest so I figured this would be a good time to explore why would I use American Express, who uses it and the major benefits. For comparison I’m currently using [...]
A few weeks back my friend John recommended I read the story of karlssonwilker inc., called tellmewhy: The First 24 Months of a New York Design Company. The book is both absurd and interesting at the same time. Essentially it is the dueling stream of consciousness from the two founders and only employee’s of the [...]
Image via Wikipedia I came across this blog post recently where a waiter was fired for twittering while on the job. This wasn’t a case where they were fired just for twittering, it’s because who the tweets were about which is a whole new kind of fail whale. Let’s cut to the chase, if you [...]