I’ve been doing stand-up comedy professionally for almost 15 years, but for 13 of those years, I was doing it wrong. Maybe not necessarily from the performance or writing perspective, but from the marketing end. While I was driving 7 hours to gigs in the middle of nowhere for less than stellar pay, week in and week out, I thought getting more gigs, booked in more rooms and in front of the right influential people, that I would end up going places. And that I did – going to more low pay one-nighter gigs at bars and clubs. Still barely able to make rent. Still driving the same beat-up car. Still struggling to keep my schedule full so I can get by. Until I got connected. Through this

In a previous post, I surmised that Facebook is quickly moving to take over not just our online interactions, but our offline interactions as well. If everything you did was shared with your social graph, would it make you a better or worse consumer? Does it help or hurt business that we know more about each other than ever before? Join Nathan Hangen and I as we dive into this on the Free Market Anarchy

Were you to follow nothing but news from sites like TechCrunch, HackerNews, and VentureBeat, you’d think that “The Valley” was a place of wonder, full of inspiration and ideas that you can model to build your business. But Nathan Hangen and I want to talk about why Silicon Valley is not only a lie, but why you should ignore it completely. Don’t get me wrong, we love technology, startups, and money, but the truth is that the valley is setting a bad example, and it’s time that someone says

On this week’s Free Market Anarchy podcast, Nathan Hangen and I address the ongoing union battle in Wisconsin (which is quickly spreading to other states) and how collective bargaining by public servants erodes capitalist economies. From my past experience working in the public sector as a union employee (computer tech at a community college), you frankly don’t even think about what your representative body is actually doing. Most people probably couldn’t even name their union chief. All you know, pretty much, is that a couple of bucks comes out of your paycheck for union dues – and you just assume that they’re spending it wisely, fighting for your best interests. The union only

Here’s the latest episode of the uber-capitalist Free Market Anarchy podcast co-hosted by Nathan Hangen and yours truly. (For more, definitely go ahead and subscribe via iTunes.) Apple recently announced a subscription billing option for app developers. This means that new developers can now charge monthly fees for access to content, but it also inserts Apple as a highway, where they charge a 30% toll to anyone that wants to use it. Is this good business sense, and does Apple have a moral, or even legal obligation to take care of the developers in their ecosystem? Rhapsody stands opposed in an act of defiance – will others join in? Who’s right, and most importantly, is this