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• 02.24.08
  How Consulting Paid for 50% of my MBA
  Entrepreneurship, My Experiences

  Recently someone wrote me asking for advice on how to break into the world of consulting. I thought the best way to address this was through a post on my personal experience... When I was 24 I lost my job. I won’t get into specifics, but it was a difficult time because everything I had worked so hard for suddenly seemed to have been stripped away from me. At the time I wasn’t really sure what I wanted to do, but I knew I did not want to put my trust into another corporate experience for a long, long time. ...
  
  
• 11.28.07
  Dating in 2007: A Male’s Perspective
  Pop Culture

    One thing that has plagued me recently is a lack of anything intelligent to read by young authors speaking to situations immediately relevant to me. I would love to read a work that really speaks to my generation and to the changes in culture, media and conventions currently taking place. If I had the talent to write such a seminal work, I would. Alas I do not. Dave Eggers is probably our greatest hope. In the interim, I thought I would write a series of posts on a topic very relevant to me and to many of my friends and ...
  
  
• 11.27.07
  Back to Basics
  My Experiences

    I’m not happy with this blog. I have been blogging a lot recently but I am not getting much satisfaction from it. I don’t like the fact that the majority of my posts for the last six months have been focused on Facebook. Facebook is a huge force, but it’s not the be all end all and it doesn’t play nearly as large a role in my professional life as my reference frequency would indicate. Over the past couple weeks I have been very into updating my “status” in GChat (equivalent to an away message in AIM) and with some ...
  
  
• 09.28.07
  New York, I’m Back
  My Experiences

  Unbelievably, I forgot to announce on this blog that I am moving back to New York. As of Sunday I will be based out of Brooklyn Heights -- returning to the city I left almost four years ago. With that said, here is an ode to my time in DC. When I arrived in DC I was doing securities litigation, studying for the LSAT and thinking I would join the ranks of K Street lawyers. I came to DC largely because I didn't know anyone here and I didn't want to do what all my other friends were doing ’“ ...
  
  
• 08.27.07
  Will Consult for Travel
  My Experiences, Social Media

  Had a great idea inspired by Noah Kagan who parlayed his blogging into a trip to Israel. I just graduated from Bschool and am looking to make up for lost travel time. If anyone wants to fly me out and feed me (plus provide a couch to crash on) I am available for 2 day consulting gigs with any company looking to do something cool in the social media space and who is at least a flight away from DC. I have experience doing UI, social media optimization, interactive marketing, business planning and VC fundraising ’“ but I haven’t traveled enough. ...
  
  
• 08.13.07
  Wilderness 2.0 = Wilderness Deadpool
  My Experiences

    When I was 20, one of my best friends and I spent the spring living outside of Jackson Hole, WY over Teton Pass, in the town of Driggs, Idaho. Driggs is an outdoor sports mecca and the views are simply spectacular. In contrast to Jackson Hole, Driggs has traditionally been a blue-collar farm town standing in the shadows of the resort community. Still, even when I was living out here 8 years ago, the landscape was changing. Ski bums and summer workers priced out of Jackson were starting to migrate across the pass. And why wouldn't they - Grand Targhee ...
  
  
• 07.12.07
  Hola
  My Experiences

  I have been hammered with work lately, but am now 'officially' four weeks from finally being done with my MBA! However due to my current workload, the slow summer season and lack of great insights, I am going to take some time to re-design my blog. I'll be back soon and better than ever... Sam
  
  
• 07.06.07
  Time-off to enjoy the Crickets
  My Experiences

  I'm taking a few days off from blogging to enjoy the outdoors. But, here's something pretty cool... If you count the number of chirps made by a cricket in 14 seconds and then add 38, you will the have the temperature in Fahrenheit (source).
  
  
• 04.28.07
  You can lead a person to culture, but you can’t make them think
  My Experiences

  Someone was kind enough to submit my blog to Digg two days ago. This morning when I first noticed the link, I went to the article and viewed a comment that had been left. After reading the response, I felt compelled to respond...here is the exchange in its entirety: Phibre States: ’the bright young things sam fawns over really need to be dropped off in the middle of the gobi.’ My Response: Phibre: This is Sam. I certainly value your opinion, but I ask you why these ’bright young things’ that I fawn over out to be ’dropped off in the Gobi’ ...
  
  
• 04.10.07
  I’m a Believer: Trader Joe’s
  My Experiences

  Tuesday, April 10, 2007: 6:30pm I am in line at Trader Joe's in Foggy Bottom, Washington, DC. I am in a line I estimate to be 120+ persons long. You know what, I don’t even mind. As though you were running a marathon, they have stations set up offering, coffee and cookie crumbles as you pass the midway point. I have seen at least one relationship develop, definitely digits were exchanged. The line has kept moving constantly and they have runners strategically placed in case a price needs double checking or someone needs to replace a damaged vegetable. Some people are literally buying ...
  
  

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