George Pelecanos of ‘The Wire’ and ‘Treme’ fame just finished up a ‘Ask Me Anything’ on Reddit. I suggest you check it out.

The Mercenary Techie Who Troubleshoots for Drug Dealers and Jealous Lovers by Adrian Chen With Martin’s system, each crewmember gets a cell phone that operates using a prepaid SIM card; they also get a two-week plastic pill organizer filled with 14 SIM cards where the pills should be. Each SIM card, loaded with $50 worth [...]

Everything I need to know about startups, I learned from a crime boss by Donald DeSantis, Giant Thinkwell  Interesting things happen when we cut out the middleman. In addition to reducing cost, we often end up creating an internal byproduct that can be productized and sold to a completely new customer. (Amazon Web Services is [...]