(This post was also published on Business Insider) There are three types of programmers. Nope, this isn’t the beginning of a joke about binary numbers, I promise!  Instead it’s the conclusion I reached after a great discussion with my friend Ben Fisher about programmers and technical co-founders. When hunting for a technical co-founder, don’t assume that anyone [...]

(This post was initially published on Business Insider) The City that has everything is still missing one thing: technical talent. New York is flush with investors, incubators, and mentorship programs. But the lack of technical talent is preventing the City from truly rivaling Silicon Valley as THE center of the technology world. Every single NYC [...]

…or “Why You Need a Graphic Designer” The book’s title caught my eye instantly.  ”Visual Literacy”  Intriguing.  I took it home, and over the next few days, I learned just how blind I was to the art of visual communication. Completely illiterate. The book begins with exercises: “By using four black squares of the same [...]

(because it’s not mine!) Many of you might have received an email about a birthday party scheduled for tonight.  Hopefully you’re not planning on coming because the party isn’t mine — it’s actually a humorous misunderstanding caused by an overly aggressive planning web service. Perhaps you’re familiar with Plancast.com – ’foursquare for the future.’  Well, last week I received a [...]

Every year at Thanksgiving, alumni of Friends’ Central School flock home.  They drop by campus and visit their old classrooms and teachers.  And every year I go back, I’m struck by a single realization: so little has changed. It’s been over six years since I graduated from FCS, a small and intimate Quaker high school [...]