Last Thursday, I started a new gig as VP of Product for Axial. Given that the company is both B2B and has a target market largely outside of tech, I’m guessing that most people have not heard of it. Axial is a 100-person startup that runs an online network for connecting business owners who want to sell or raise equity/debt …

I’ve decided I’ve had it with blogger clickbait, in particular the tendency to toss a highly controversial title in front of a non-controversial post. The ones I fall for usually claim that something I believe is wrong (or “dead”). Then they proceed to explain how the idea was right after all, albeit in need of “tweaking.” I click because I …

File this under the “so I remember it later” department.  Tonight I was working on a large financial model and banging my head against the fact that all my old Excel keyboard shortcuts don’t work on the Mac.  So I dug around and pulled together the list of ones that I commonly use: MAC EXCEL 2016 Define a name: Ctrl …

I’ve had all my sites hosted on a shared server with a bunch of friends for years, and the decision was made to call it a day on that box. My goal had been to redo this blog in Middleman or Octopress, but the time never materialized, so I’ve done a rush port of the wordpress blog to a new …