Writing

"In rock, 'progressive' doesn't mean writing about the future; it means writing about a past that never happened."- Chuck Klosterman, Klosterman IV Read more

Scott Karp wrote last week that innovations in online advertising could dethrone the page view as the metric of choice. Jarvis picks up on it today, from a different angle.This followed up on a post Karp wrote back in September [...]  Read more

“When Picasso reworked Velazquez, Delacroix, and the other Old Masters, he seemed to be devouring them, appropriating and digesting for his own use their mysterious essence.”-Calvin Tomkins Read more

Watching this video of American Apparel CEO Dov Charney on Charlie Rose (I think from July 2006), I was struck by these comments Charney made in response to a question about why American Apparel was so successful (my transcription):"Its the [...]  Read more

Carmun is a wonderful service (where I am a founder/investor) with alot of potential. Call it social networking for brainiacs, the yin to the Facebook yang, whatever . . . but its goal is to create an online community for [...]  Read more

Unable to know is a condition I’ve lived inAll my life; it is a povertyOf imagination about the life of another.This is, I think, the case with everyone.It is because there is a silence that weAre all of us forbidden [...]  Read more

A common topic of conversation these days seems to be whether or not we are in another tech/Internet bubble. Famous industry names have weighed in such as Forbes/Karlgaard (not sure), Scoble (yes but its different this time), Kedrosky (not only [...]  Read more

Take an old blues/jug song, combine some John Phillips Monterey Pop mojo with a few music freaks from the penninsula, and this is what you get: Read more