My Experience With No Car in Atlanta For Nearly a Year

Yesterday was bittersweet. It was the final day of a “two week experiment” that turned into an 11 month lifestyle change filled with adventure, new perspective, and wonderful stories. Yesterday we went from a one car family to a two car family. The simple and exciting reason: our family is…

The Surprise Fries Bliss

There have been two recent instances involving Chick-fil-a waffle fries that spur me to write. These are not the regular Chick-fil-a waffle fries, although I do love the big crispy bite with an ounce of fluff. Those fries are exceptional and expected. You eat them in the middle of a…

Why Atlanta's Collapse(s) Are Good For Us

Yesterday late afternoon/early evening I was on the roof of the Atlanta Tech Village watching what seemed like a never ending smoke machine spewing out black clouds. Searching Twitter showed that I-85 was on fire. No good. Thirty minutes into the political fundraiser for Peter Aman [https://peteraman.com/…

The Market

I’ve prioritized sales. I’ve prioritized product [https://www.jonbirdsong.com/2014/10/18/product-reigns-supreme/]. I’ve prioritized messaging. I’ve prioritized marketing. One item I always kind of left to chance or dare I say luck was the market. The market, just like on Wall Street, is a…

Raising Standards on Today's Rhetoric

I’m just as disappointed in myself as I am with the rest of the nation when it comes to the current level of rhetoric in politics. I’ve excitingly watched more Republican debates than Democratic (normally I try to keep them level) merely because of sheer entertainment. Watching Trump…

How I Would Get Donald Trump Out of the Presidential Race

Monday is the Iowa caucus. This political season has been some of the most entertaining but when November comes, it’s serious business. Donald Trump is one of the most entertaining figures in the world. I remember reading the Art of The Deal in college and loving it. Back then,…

My Reading Game Plan for 2016

“A mind needs books like a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge. That is why i read so much.” -Tyrion Lannister In a classic exchange between Jon Snow and Tyrion Lannister, Tyrion describes why he reads so much. One of my largest regrets in 2015…

The Shakespearean Ripening of a New Market: People's Feedback

Preparing The Globe Theatre The banana is still green but shades of a prescient, yellow harvest is on the way. Yesterday’s product announcement of PeopleSpark, a brainchild of Bigcommerce co-founder and board member Mitch Harper, is another telling sign that people’s feedback is more than an interesting niche…