Leaving your large company to join a start-up is never an easy decision to make. You have to take many factors into consideration, including your tolerance for risk, how much cash you have in the bank, your family situation, student loans, and lots of other things. When I (...)

Last night, Penelope had a dinner date, but nobody to watch her children. So being the great co-workers that we are, Ryan and I put Cinco de Mayo on hold and spent an evening getting to know her two sons. They’re both very smart kids, and I learned (...)

There are few things as fundamental and as frustrating to the human experience as moving. When I was a kid, my parents had lived in the same house for their entire marriage, and they had no interest in living anywhere else and happily commuted quite a distance to work every (...)

I’m terrible at being environmentally conscious. I use paper plates because sometimes I’m too lazy to wash dishes. I drive my car (a lot). And you could build some kind of cool castle structure with all of the non-reusable coffee cups I go through. All and (...)

Seth Godin claims that Henry Ford’s greatest achievement was not the assembly line, but rather that he understood (and exploited) the power of productivity. Godin argues that Ford understood that paying workers more than the average salary would make them work twice as hard, and pump out (...)