What happens to custom apparel when people are done wearing them? Thrift shops can’t re-sell 80–90% of what is dropped off at their doors. What about printing a QR code on a shirt that shows textile recycling/upcycle options? I was going through my pitch this winter with an NBA team’s…

What kind of learner is my 4-year-old? What kind is my almost 2-year-old? If things are hard for them in school- if there is something they do not understand, or they have any trouble, how will they get the help they need? How do they learn to be resilient without…

In the summer of 2012, Ross and I launched t-shirt quilts in a national Groupon email. In a matter of days, we went from selling 10 quilts a week to 2,000. It wasn’t perfect, not at all, but we quickly figured out how to ramp up production and start a…

A big chunk of history for the longest chunk of time ever known Since everyone knows that January 2022 would be the longest month ever, I was in need of “a big chunk of history.” A history book to exemplify one month alone was just a tiny blip in the…

From Hang Time to Prime Time is a rollicking business history of the early years of the NBA’s rise to fame and profitability. In 1981, sixteen of the twenty-three teams lost money, and most franchises depended on an $800,000 check from CBS to stay afloat. In the 1982–83 season, there…

WeWork was a train wreck in 2019 that we could not look away from, here is the book on it. In Reeves Wiedeman’s captivating and thrilling book on Adam Neumann’s rise and fall that hit bookshelves this week, he details how Neumann and WeWork gave investors precisely what they drooled over. He told them he would change the world, disrupt everything, pillage rivals, build faster, break more things, and do…

David Randall’s Black Death at the Golden Gate Review Aka how public health officials and rat killing squads saved early 20th Century San Francisco Citizen Nathan Goes to the Internet Book recommendations, covid19 thoughts, how business is evolvingcitizennathan.substack.com I think a lot these days about Hurricane Katrina. Not just because I am more nostalgic of the before times, it has been ten years since…

I did not expect to think about predictive analytics and blue ocean markets when reading Paul Tough’s latest book, but it triggered a lot of entrepreneurial connections. I also was deeply impressed by his mix of policy, anecdotal evidence, and critical thinking. …

Michael Lewis, The Fith Risk It is not the most damning analysis of Trumpism because… where do you even start? But if you had to start somewhere maybe it is the willful ignorance (at best) of the institution our country has built over the course of three hundred years. We…