This season, bear is in

It must be some sort of indication of where we are in the economic cycle when major publications start doing big stories on the people who make the most pessimistic predictions. Anyone read the “Dr. Doom” profile of NYU economist Nouriel Roubini in the New York Times magazine over the weekend? It reminded me of [...]

Crowdsourcing worked on me

I was in Chicago this weekend, and when I told my friend that I liked the t-shirt she was wearing, she mentioned that she’d bought it at Threadless. This caught my attention because Threadless was one of the companies Jeff Howe and I talked about on Friday. Threadless asks people to submit t-shirt designs online, [...]