Immigrant founders work on holidays. Or at least they network. I didn’t make it to the fireworks this past July 4th. Instead, I spent the holiday evening at a meetup for immigrant founders. Somya Gupta was one of the hosts of the event, which was held at...

We’ve known for some time that ChatGPT poses an existential threat to digital publishers. Some people think we appear to be closer to the end of that Cambrian extinction than the beginning based on data from Cloudflare. Last night, I attended an...

Dad organized his beach badge collection this weekend.  He’s been saving badges since my parents bought the shore house in Manasquan about sixty years ago. Recently, he decided we need to finish the project. For regular readers you understand the...

I met up with Frédérick Lavoie, co-founder of Deck. We each grabbed a coffee and sat under an awning at the Archer Hotel on 38th street. I persuaded him to flex so I could see the “Flinks” tattoo on his arm which he and his co-founder got after selling...

It was 2001 and I was working as the New York bureau chief at Bloomberg News. Mike Bloomberg had just appointed Peter T. Grauer chairman in anticipation of running for mayor. Peter saw me getting coffee in the food court and came over to introduce himself...

My father has been cleaning up the garage. I saw him this weekend and asked him how it’s going. “It’s getting there,” he said. My father is 98 and he’s been working on this project for decades. The garage, it should be noted, is already pretty damn...

My parents rotated their mattress this week.  Dad keeps a schedule written on an envelope that gets tucked between the mattress and the box spring. It was the seventh time in almost 25 years. It was last rotated on the Ides of March 2024. Before that:...

Imagine winning a Pulitzer Prize without knowing you entered. That’s evidently what happened to Bloomberg News, according to an account by Lachlan Cartwright in the newsletter Breaker Media. Bloomberg Editor-in-Chief John Micklethwait got a call from...

One thing you won’t find in the SparkNotes version of the Great Gatsby is the memorable last line: “So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”  It’s among the most enduring phrases in American literature, but it...

Jefferies CEO Rich Handler is out with his annual list of suggestions for how to succeed at the firm in particular and life in general.  “What You Need to Know as a Summer Intern” is a list of 20 recommendations for how to get the most out of a few...