
Author and media strategist; former director of marketing at American Apparel and owner of the Painted Porch bookshop in Texas.
The Obstacle Is the Way and Ego Is the Enemy convert Stoic practice - separating what is controllable from what is not, treating recognition as a threat to judgment - into working habits for people running companies, which is why the books circulate so widely among founders. Trust Me, I'm Lying and Growth Hacker Marketing document how online media incentives can be manipulated, written by someone who did it professionally.
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The secretly funded litigation that destroyed Gawker.
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The case that programmatic advertising is a mispriced market.
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Work is splitting between those who work well with smart machines and the rest.
“Tyler Cowen... dedicates a chapter to freestyle chess in his terrific book, Average Is Over.” — Michael Mauboussin
Source: Lessons from Freestyle Chess: Merging Fundamental and Quantitative Analysis (Credit Suisse)
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