Shallow Rewards has been my online “brand” since 2006. I self-published a Kindle ebook collecting essays written after my years at Pitchfork and before the multimedia phase of videos and podcasts I produced between 2012 and 2017. All legacy…
It began when New York journalist and author Stephen J. Dubner went to Chicago to write about award-winning economist Steven D. Levitt for The New York Times Magazine. Dubner had been reluctant to take the assignment (he was in the middle o…
I wonder if you are having one my favorite moments right now? You know, the moments where you sit still for five minutes (just pretend it's five minutes) to take a break, and fill your bucket, and breathe?
If this is one those mome…
The Quarterly Newsletter of the American Association
of Amateur Astronomers
The American Association of Amateur Astronomers has created an online archive of its quarterly newsletter, The American Astronomer. This archive serves as an onli…
Turning Buybacks Into Profit
A Cornell graduate, David Fried is one of the few money managers to have also founded a company listed in Inc. agazine’s annual “Inc. 500” list of the 500 fastest growing private companies (1989).
Mr. Fried is t…
We can't really understand where we are unless we understand how we got here - and, when it comes to the web and web development, Jay Hoffman serves up history that, on top of being useful, is always fun to read.