Tag: Seriously

A fellow entrepreneur friend recently spoke some words of wisdom that made me recoil with shame. I was so embarrassed that I almost buried my secret and refrained from writing this article…but I figure I can’t be the only entrepreneur who’s ever dealt with this, so in case it help...

Icame late to Tokyo. It was October 2007, more than a decade after I’d started seriously traveling the world, and I’d already been to some far-flung places in Asia—Ipoh and Urumqi, Bishkek and Battambang. But I’d never had a reason to visit Japan, nor the budget I figured I&r...

U.S. senators have echoed previous concerns on Fidelity Investments’ decision to offer retirement plan participants access to Bitcoin. Source: Unsplash In a letter on Monday, three senators, Elizabeth Warren, Dick Durbin and Tina Smith, urged the investment holding com...

For the longest time, you were more likely to know a trans person because they had died than lived. The names of dead trans women, men, and enbys have hung in the air for my entire adult life. People like Venus Xtravaganza, Brandon Teena, and Islan Nettles have been a part of my ...

Out of all the writing gigs, writing advertising copy for rifle manufacturers might make one lose their soul. (Assuming the writer had one, to begin with.) Daniel Defense is the manufacturer of the semi-automatic assault weapon used in the Uvalde mass shooting. The company is now getting some sla...

Almost a quarter of a century ago, managers of the legendary Bell Labs reported several breakthroughs that could have changed technology forever: Within a year one of their young researchers named Jan Hendrik Schön had succeeded in creating an organic super-conductor, a laser built from organic...