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This past weekend, I was a part of Chicago Startup Weekend. We (Some friends, my brother, and I) gave a solid college try at launching a minimum viable product (MVP) to help foodies connect to personal chefs and aspiring food entrepreneurs called BigStove. We did hone our message and are working on taking some important [...]

I usually lock my laptop in the BettrAt WHQ file drawer. I forgot my keys this morning, so I didn’t have a laptop. How are you supposed to work without a laptop? Then it dawned on me. I’m going to try an experiment with the iPad today where I use it to get as much [...]

I haven’t read Ariely’s latest book yet, The Upside of Rationality, but the Boing Boing folks seem to have summed up the best part. Ariely was on All Things Considered earlier this month. Here’s where our intuitive response is really wrong: we have a tendency to indulge our pleasures without respite, and to take frequent [...]

If the world were easily explained by some meta production possibilities curve that included every single possible output, I wonder which “output” most people are spending their time, energy, and money. It might seem odd to boil the entire world of production into this simple curve (but economics by its nature is a simplification). I [...]