Ok, so why is a meme worth $595,000? Last week as I listened to Jon Lovett’s podcast “Lovett or Leave It” (which, by the way, I highly recommend), I was introduced to a new concept. Lovett’s guest, almost laughing at himself, described how he had waited in a digital line…

Let’s learn about tech drama and open-source. — If you are a coder like me, you are all too familiar with error messages. Who among us hasn’t experienced the minor annoyance of a syntax error, or the blinding rage of a broken line of code that destroys your entire project. On what seemed to be a typical morning…

Then after that you should use real data. — “Sincerity — if you can fake that, you’ve got it made.” ― George Burns If there is one thing we can all agree upon, it is that George Burns was clearly a sociopath. Let’s just address that elephant in the room before we kick off. Luckily, that quote of his…

“You nervous? Don’t be. ” -Donny Wahlberg to me, one time. My apartment is not very large. It is not a shoebox — not like my first NYC apartment on 158th street that I shared with two girls, several mice, and a stray cat that used to climb in my…