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The Elephant in the Room
The Elephant in the Room
Ted Merz Surface Area
Sign up to receive Surface Area or follow me on Linkedin or Twitter. Book a meeting here to talk about ghostwriting from my agency, Principals Media. The elephant in the room at the Harvard Club is the elephant. I mean that literally. There is a...
11 months ago
4 MIN READ
Dad's Beach Badges
Dad's Beach Badges
Ted Merz Surface Area
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...
3 weeks ago
4 MIN READ
Tweeting the News
Tweeting the News
Ted Merz Surface Area
Sign up to receive Surface Area or follow me on Linkedin or Twitter. Book a meeting here to talk about ghostwriting from my agency, Principals Media. Companies make announcements every day. But few do it like OpenAI. The creator of ChatGPT last week...
10 months ago
4 MIN READ
Returning to Norway
Returning to Norway
Ted Merz Surface Area
Sign up to receive Surface Area or follow me on Linkedin or Twitter. Book a meeting here to talk about ghostwriting from my agency, Principals Media. I returned to Norway last weekend to attend my 40th high school reunion.  It was remarkable for many...
11 months ago
4 MIN READ
Writing on the Subway
Writing on the Subway
Ted Merz Surface Area
Sign up to receive Surface Area or follow me on Linkedin or Twitter. Book a meeting here to talk about ghostwriting from my agency, Principals Media. Everyone needs a room of their own to write, Virginia Woolf famously argued. Today, the challenge is...
1 year ago
4 MIN READ
Prague Startup
Prague Startup
Ted Merz Surface Area
I met up with StockStory Founder Adam Hejl 👋 at the Eska Bakery in the Karlin section of Prague. I had the scrambled eggs with onion and chives. He had the poached egg with fermented wheat and mushrooms. Karlin has become the destination for the...
2 months ago
4 MIN READ
Designing Product
Designing Product
Ted Merz Surface Area
Sign up to receive Surface Area or follow me on Linkedin or Twitter. Book a meeting here to talk about ghostwriting from my agency, Principals Media. Yvonne Caravia met me for lunch at La Bonne Soupe, a French restaurant on 55th street in midtown...
12 months ago
3 MIN READ
DeepSeek Flew Under the Radar
DeepSeek Flew Under the Radar
Ted Merz Surface Area
Sign up to receive Surface Area or follow me on Linkedin or Twitter. Book a meeting here to talk about ghostwriting from my agency, Principals Media. The craziest aspect of the DeepSeek AI story is how investors and the media reacted. I don’t mean...
6 months ago
3 MIN READ
Organizing the Garage
Organizing the Garage
Ted Merz Surface Area
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...
1 month ago
4 MIN READ
Valentine, Texas
Valentine, Texas
Ted Merz Surface Area
Sign up to receive Surface Area or follow me on Linkedin or Twitter. Book a meeting here to talk about ghostwriting from my agency, Principals Media. John Maloney, the co-founder of Urban Baby and former President of Tumblr, splits his time between...
8 months ago
4 MIN READ