The root cause of all problems
A friend asked me for advice before conducting her first post-mortem. Here’s what I should have told her. All problems have the same...
Stop worshiping Steve Jobs’ depravity
“I’m not a jerk like Jobs was. Which is the biggest reason why I’m just a moderately successful business guy, and not a super...
Answers.com layoffs: The pain & the hope
It was a very emotional day at Answers.com, as roughly 2/3 of the Jerusalem employees were let go. I was impressed by how people handled...
Marketing in the Age of Google: Vanessa Fox on search strategy
It always feels strange to buy a hard copy of a book about something that’s changing rapidly, but Vanessa Fox‘s Marketing in the Age of...
Celebrating Marissa Mayer’s tenure at Google search
Marissa Mayer led the user interface and web servers teams when she joined Google in 1999. Her titles have changed through the years,...
Men, women, work & family
A lot of passionate & negative reaction to Penelope Trunk’s Women Don’t Want To Run Startups Because They’d Rather Have Children in...
Demand Media: A story in 5 numbers
After almost a year of hype and speculation Demand Media finally had to release some numbers in order to file for their IPO. In case...
A sense of purpose
The hardest thing about Tisha B’av, the day Jews most focus on tragedies, isn’t the hunger, the thirst, or the depressing (and often dull...
First rule of management: first, do no harm
Medical ethics begins with the principle primum non nocere, Do No Harm. It’s the first rule of management too. Not because harm caused...
Can Stack Overflow grow beyond programming?
[Reminder / Disclosure: I work at Answers.com, which is in some ways a competitor] Congrats to Joel Spolsky on getting funding from an...