I live in New York and my interests include machine learning, game design, computer programming, and startups.
Here’s a reasonably successful card game I developed: Ambition.
Michael O. Church
Rants, essays, and diatribes.
I live in New York and my interests include machine learning, game design, computer programming, and startups.
Here’s a reasonably successful card game I developed: Ambition.
LOL ! Michael high time you did something on this page.
Hey
I’m Elli, co-founder of HireArt (YCombinator W12). Do you have time to chat? I want to run some ideas by you — saw your post on working at start ups. LOL
elli@hireart.com
You are an amazing writer and thinker! Still digesting your last post. Thank you for writing. Masha
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strauss-Howe_generational_theory should be integrated with your Ladders, yes?
Hi Michael,
I couldn’t find your contact on this site, so I’m leaving a comment here. I wanted you to know that your article about the 3 ladder class system has turned me, my entire nuclear family, and a few of my friends into regular readers of yours. Your ideas are well fleshed out and extremely compelling. I wish I could learn to think on your level.
trevor
Your post on common misperceptions of start ups is one of the best blog posts I’ve read. Thank you for saying what is so obviously true that so few people have the courage to say in public. You should feel proud because I bet a lot of people have changed their life decisions based on reading your post.
Thanks! I hope you’re right.
All that said, I hope I’ve only pushed them away from the _crappy_ startups. There are good ones out there as well.
Hi, are you on Twitter?
Hello,
Have you an email address? I love your writing and thinking. You are a hard man to reach!
Thanks!
In response to your HN post: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4830137
I’m a fan of your work, and your essays have crystallized some of my own ideas about the incentive structures of effective engineering organizations.
I’m currently pursuing freelance and consulting work and have begun building a network of clients who would likely find you very useful (though I can’t promise that the work would be super engaging.)
Feel free to drop me a line if you’d like to chat.
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Michael…Thank goodness I came across your blog. I was debating whether or not to go out on my own or join a start-up. I have my answer. I always thought the VC’s were a little crooked. I am not a business person just a person with fantastic creations. Best.
hey man, i’m a random artist in nyc and i really want to make a long-form video blog doing a reading of your 3-teir ladder system post, since i think it’s the most important article written in the past 30 years or so. just wanted to run it by you first, e-mail me if you get the chance! (i would love to meet up some time if you’re interested, i am very intent on building a career around social criticism along these lines)
I’ve been following your blog and your comments around the web and you really should be getting more praise than is out there. Your understanding of the company marketplace and organizational environment we’ve created as a society is inspiring. And it seems to be leading to a strategy of organization that would have enough anti-toxins to resist the other well known plagues of group culture. Such seems like so distant of a dream, so to walk through the current construct in such a detailed way, verifiable by my own life-experience alone, makes it seem like there very well could be a way through.
Thanks! Yeah, it has taken me a lot to learn what I have thus far.
Mike,
First off, fantastic site. I read this blog all the time and it’s great.
I currently blog independently for the website “Wall Street Oasis”- I’m sure you’re aware of it, given that you’ve already posted there. I was wondering if you would be interested in articulating your thoughts on the value of coding and programming for a career in finance via an email-interview of sorts. I also wanted to write a separate piece on VC-istan if you had the time. I realize that you’ve already written on this topic, but I had some specific questions, and these guys could really use your advice. I think this could make for a terrific article. You have my email, please write back if this is something you’d be interested in. Cheers,
By the way, I think we have some mutual friends at Carleton.
Hi Kato,
Yeah, absolutely. I’m michael.o.church at Google’s email service.