max s. gerber(the latest shot)

i get to meet people who do a lot of different things, some of which seem very enviable. i mean, really, who wouldn’t want the title “venture capitalist”? it seems like it’d be great for once to be the guy able to give out the money instead of being the guy trying to get the [...]

david allen is the author of a popular series of books and accompanying lectures promoting a system called “getting things done“. it’s quite possible i could use some of this training myself. i was very pleased to see, though, that david allen doesn’t abhor the use of post-it notes. really, i’ve got way too many [...]

what do you do if you’ve made millions in business, you find yourself retired and have been slowly watching someone you love ravaged by multiple sclerosis? well, if you’re cliff giese you look around, find someone working on a promising treatment and struggling to finance it, you step in, put your money where it can [...]

sometimes taking pictures of the boss at a big firm can be nerve wracking. most of the time you encounter very busy subjects who don’t have much patience for sitting in front of a camera and usually aren’t particularly good at it anyway. almost always you encounter a handful of people under the boss who [...]