One Formula Doesn’t Fit Them All What Homejoy’s business teaches us about the difficulty of replicating Uber Homejoy’s epic demise laid out here teaches us about the fundamental problem of trying to copy a model that works for one industry but doesn’t work for another one. If I’m hiring someone to clean my house and I […]
The Steve Jobs Movie Was a Massive Failure Almost every week I go watch a movie. I love movies. It’s one of the few times in my week where I’m able to disconnect from work and fully engage myself in another experience. In many ways watching movies is therapeutic. Ironically, some of my greatest thoughts on […]
When Did Deal Sites Like Groupon and Living Social Become Marketing Scams? I noticed recently that a ton of the deals on Groupon, Living Social, Travelzoo, etc. are straight up marketing scams. Such as:– Buy a $33 oil change that is a $200 value and that value includes an engine light diagnostic (which means they […]
iPhone 6 Activation Network Bug Fix After getting my phone network was not working, clearly a big issue I’m seeing all over the forums If you are having this issue, what worked for me is:Settings -> General -> Reset -> Reset Network Settings
“I have thought I am a creature of a day, passing through life as an arrow through the air. I am a spirit come from God, and returning to God, justhovering over the great gulf, till a few moments hence, I am no more seen; I drop into an unchangeable eternity! I want to know […]
How Christians Should Respond to Suicide and Death After spending the night after Robin Williams’ death working on a tribute video: I received some questions from Christians on whether I should be putting together the video. Aren’t I celebrating and encouraging suicide? Before addressing why that statement makes me furious, I want to discuss how we […]
Basic Essential vi vim Commands i = insertO = insert line aboveo = insert line belowesc = edit modeh = leftl = rightk = upj = downyy = copyp = pasteu = undoJ = join linesw = next wordb = last word( = jump to last sentence) = jump to next sentence^ = beginning of a […]
Commentary on Twitter and Their 30% Earnings Spike Sometimes you’re flush and sometimes you’re bust, and when you’re up, it’s never as good as it seems, and when you’re down, you never think you’ll be up again, but life goes on. -Fred Jung in the movie Blow After Twitter went public they experienced the typical IPO […]
The Difference Between Investing in a Co-Founder Led Company and a CEO Led Company After closing my hedge fund and moving from the finance industry to the tech industry I don’t have as much time to invest anymore. I found recently that my inclination in this case has been to invest with a long term horizon […]
Sudo Gem Install Rails Mavericks OS X Error got a new computer recently and xcode 5.1 seems to be causing some issues: Building native extensions. This could take a while…ERROR: Error installing rails: ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension. /System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/2.0/usr/bin/ruby extconf.rbcreating Makefile make “DESTDIR=”compiling generator.clinking shared-object json/ext/generator.bundleclang: error: unknown argument: ‘-multiply_definedsuppress’ [-Wunused-command-line-argument-hard-error-in-future]clang: note: this will […]