Hi. I’d like to take a moment to talk about technology entrepreneurship. First, the context A few days ago, Brian Sierakowski published an exit interview with Baltimore entrepreneur Paul Capestany. Paul (who, alas, I don’t personally know) is a smart fellow who recently decided to leave Baltimore to pursue his entrepreneurial dreams in San Francisco. [...]
Category Archives: Rants
In Which I Channel My Inner Jason Fried
November 15, 2010 – 8:26 am
Pulse is the latest news aggregation application exciting people on the iPad. (Is Flipboard not cool anymore? I can’t keep up with these things.) Reporting on the quick success of the application, The New York Times tells us: The company will also announce that it has raised $800,000 in venture capital, the first step in [...]
Art Heroes Radio
July 9, 2010 – 10:08 am
This week John T Unger invited me on his podcast Art Heroes Radio, a place where John tries to help artists and entrepreneurs become “heroes on their own terms.” I dig that. Anyway, here’s the page for our conversation: The competitive advantage of hiring artists, A conversation with Chris Ashworth Despite the specificity of the [...]
Look Left
January 16, 2010 – 11:53 am
It’s early Saturday morning, my wife just went to work, and residing in my mental register are about eight things that take drastically higher priority over writing a blog post. So heeeeyyyeeeeeere I am. Top of the morning to you. I’ve got a date with the farmers’ market in about an hour, so let’s do [...]
The Free Market is Not Enough
September 29, 2009 – 5:31 pm
I don’t usually whip out a blog post in a wave of rage, but I’m coasting on some serious fury right now and I reckon I’m going to channel it into some good old fashioned public ranting. Attention: my filter is officially off. Hello world! I’m pissed. Today a Senate panel rejected both proposals for [...]