How Much My Novel Cost Me

Writing my first book got me into debt. To finish the next one, I had to…

10 Reasons Why Conservatives Should Start Supporting Bernie Sanders Immediately

I got arrested in Kazakhstan and represented myself in court

When I was arrested in San Francisco, I ended up spending a night in prison naked, in solitary confinement. But, I have a dirty secret: it was hardly my first encounter with the police. Once, in Kazakhstan, I experienced what…

On Wine. A tragedy.

The biggest crime against wine lovers today

The 3 Reasons Why Artists Don’t Make a Living Off Their Art (and how to avoid them).

Browsing your website does not mean I want your spam

I recently fell down a deep dark hole on the internet.

It began by researching a part for my central air conditioning but ended up with me stumbling upon a terrible development in modern advertising: spam driven…

Putting out the Twitter trashfire

Tonight I’m drinking and talking about ways Twitter could be less of a shitheap.

1. Allow users to mute all replies from a tweet. This is so basic. I can do this anywhere else. It’s a client-side option, not server-side. Add a new piece of metadata…

Has the opportunity for Indian startups been terribly wrongly estimated?

I was at a conference the other day, speaking on a panel with VCs and angels, when we were asked a question: With the softening of valuations and the famous Flipkart markdown, is there still a large…

San Francisco Should Always Have a Subway Under Construction

A couple of years ago, I was with my friend Adam Cohn when he made this simple yet important declaration — “San Francisco should always have a subway under construction.” My first reaction was to think of every possible…

Uncle Bob