Essays
49 essays, newest first.
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2010
- December 10, 2010 The Secret Power of Confidence
- December 3, 2010 Losing 20 Pounds in 3 Months
- November 18, 2010 Fuck Moderation: Balance through Extremes
- October 7, 2010 Static and Kinetic Friction
- September 27, 2010 The Lower Right Quadrant
- September 21, 2010 Opportunities in The Mobile Internet
- July 28, 2010 The Four Internet Ages
- June 30, 2010 The Product vs Distribution Framework
- June 16, 2010 Online Groups Suck – Email wins, with limits
- June 10, 2010 Ariel Day 2010 – Registration Open
- June 3, 2010 YouCastr – A Post-Mortem
- May 18, 2010 Is Diaspora the next OpenSocial?
- May 15, 2010 Alternatives to an MBA
- May 12, 2010 The ONLY 4 reasons to get an MBA
- May 10, 2010 Guest Post on Boston’s Entrepreneurial Ecosystem
- April 29, 2010 HP Acquires Palm – Well Done
- April 12, 2010 So who will end up buying Palm
- April 7, 2010 iPad Opportunities – Clipboard Replacement
- April 2, 2010 Why is it so hard to create something new?
- April 1, 2010 Untitled
- March 20, 2010 Why don’t people care about important issues?
- February 28, 2010 Email – the original killer app and still a loyal dog
- February 25, 2010 Productivity is a corner stone of an ambitious life
- February 17, 2010 The Devious Nature of Artificial Sweeteners
- January 31, 2010 Revisiting Augmented Reality – The Potential Downsides
- January 21, 2010 Rebranding the Blog – Introducing “The Ambitious Life”
- January 19, 2010 Thoughts on the upcoming Tablet or iSlate
2009
2008
- December 12, 2008 The Irony of the Move to Paid Web Services
- October 30, 2008 YouCastr: New and Improved
- October 3, 2008 MassTLC UnConference
- September 26, 2008 RIM – I'm not going to say it
- August 21, 2008 RIM is the next Palm
- July 15, 2008 FSTA Conference in Chicago
- June 2, 2008 Why Startups Fail – Agreement among contrarian points
- May 25, 2008 Chrysler's Ridiculous Promotion
- May 11, 2008 Social Media’s Holy Grail: Identity
- May 4, 2008 Talk: How Thayer prepares you for entrepreneurial endeavors
- April 28, 2008 How not to sell: Never buy a dishwasher from Best Buy