You must take the tide at its flood. That is the sad lesson of organizational leadership.   You may like your colleagues.  You may like where you work.  You may even like what you do.   But there are times when you must loose the ropes that bind you to...

You see the need. You found a way to get the money. You make the move. You’re board doesn’t like it.   But you’re ok, right?  I mean, you did the right thing?  And your board will come along, don’t you think?  Afterall, you are innovating.

Your face on the cover of a magazine. What does it matter?  (Who knows what a magazine even is, anymore?) Success has come to Vinny but how long will it stay? Fifth in our re-release of the AudioDrama: SidePocket Cast: Sahara Ale – Jessie Margaux Amie ...

They make you work. They take your money. They expect you to like it.  But sometimes.  Sometimes.  There is another option.   A chaotic trip through San Jose suggests a new strategy.  Fourth in our re-release of the Story of SidePocket Cast: Sahara Ale...

Blame the bosses.  A tried and effective strategy. And some times, it is actually true. But grudges can blind our eyes, leaving us with a moment of self satisfaction and not much more.  Jessie misplays her hand Third in our re-release of the Story of S...

Things sometimes go well. Or so we hope. Our new tech entrepreneur is in a new city with a new company, a new investment and a new start. Maybe.   Or maybe not.   Vinny and SidePocket start operations in Silicon Valley.

It’s an ordinary story.  And perhaps a bit of a fantasy. But perhaps our time  could benefit from an ordinary story.   A young African-American leaves Detroit in the mid-1980s to see what he might do in Silicon Valley and in the process,

Thomas Piketty? Don’t get what he’s saying?   Not sure you care? Zach, who is back, and Maddie, who has never left tell us what is important about the writings of this economist Or maybe not.   Dr. Piketty wrote one of the more controversial book of th...

Are you coming?  Are you going?  Do you have a place in this world? Or do you not?  Roger.  Yasmin.  Existential questions.  And the power of warm drinks. The nineteenth  episode of the Audio Drama “What Big Tech Doesn’t Know.

Are you famous? Fame we court.   Fame we try to wield (before it weilds us. But are you famous? Not the best question to hear when you are trying to understand what is happening.  Even if you’re not famous.  Not famous at all.