So, I’ve written this blog entry about five times. I’m not certain I know what I’m doing. I mean, I’m an amateur when it comes to real estate. I’m like that kid in the back of the classroom who ate paste. And I don’t mean the kid in second grade. I mean the kid in… Read More
TechFlash published a Redfin essay today asking folks in Seattle’s startup community to go ahead and disagree — yes by all means — but to stop being so nasty about it. Which of course has only incited more nastiness: 58 comments and counting. Why do you think Seattle has gotten into such a funk lately?… Read More
Following Andreas Kluth’s essay in The Economist, Nicholas Carr, author of Does IT Matter? and the recent Atlantic essay “Is Google Making Us Stupid,” said on Friday that the blogosphere is dead: While there continue to be many blogs, including a lot of very good ones, it seems to me that one would be hard… Read More
It’s an old pleasure getting a package in the mail from a friend, especially when it contains a new book, the pages cracking and smelling of paint and wood. So it was a nice surprise to get Guy Kawasaki’s Reality Check in yesterday’s mail. And nicer still to see that Redfin essays on financial models,… Read More
After Redfin’s layoff last week, the CEO of a startup down the street emailed to say “at least we’re not public!” Which made me wonder how private we really are. You can hide from the Wall Street Journal but not from the hundreds of tech and real estate blogs that covered Redfin last week. One… Read More