From here on in the swimming was fab, the people were not, where ever you swam, there was someone else there, either with their feet, or their body, or hands crawling at your feet, open water is bad enough but at the buoys its hideous. I did notice that I was overtaking people, f...
When publishers raised their wholesale prices in order to pressure Amazon to raise its resale price, Amazon didn’t budge. When publishers started “windowing” some new titles—that is, delaying their release as e-books for several months after the hardcover release—Amazon showed no inclination ...
Founders were “geniuses” and “rockstars”; it was easy to raise and easy to spend. There were herds of “unicorns,” companies that are valued at more than $1 billion. (This is to say nothing of “decacorns.”) Startups stopped running lean and instead got fat, attempting to out...
raising Ackquille and Javase with help from their grandmother. The boys’ father, Gervase Johnson, was charged with attempted first-degree murder when Ackquille was 2 months old and is serving a life sentence in Florida. When the boys would visit him in prison, he would walk the grounds wi...