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The Self-Made Man: Reed Hastings

I usually watch TV when I write, and since I don’t have a proper television, I use Netflix most of the time. I always figured Netflix was the result of corporate boardroom thinking, but it turns out that an entrepreneur came up with the idea and changed the way we watch movies

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The Self-Made Man: Gabe Newell

Awesome Men Throughout History: Lewis Grizzard

The Self-Made Man: Orv Madden

I haven’t been inside a Hot Topic in years, but that store was central to my high school experience. Hot Topic shoppers were disregarded as fad-chasing dorks who weren’t really into underground music, which is hard to imagine today when the stores are 90% anime and Insane Clown Posse merchandise. Still, now that I’m older

Awesome Men Throughout History: Juan Marichal

This week, Awesome Men Throughout History returns to baseball, mostly due to my perhaps foolish belief that it has finally stopped snowing and we can begin warm weather sports in earnest. This week’s Awesome Man is Juan Marichal, who spent most of his career pitching for the San Francisco Giants, and also hit another player

The Self-Made Man: Philip Danforth Armour, Sr.

When you think of the Gilded Age, a few specific men come to mind: Andrew Carnegie, J.P. Morgan, Cornelius Vanderbilt, and so on. These men were industrialists and entrepreneurs, and some of them worked their way up from modest jobs to become the richest and most powerful men of their generation. There is much to

Awesome Men Throughout History: Josiah Warren

When people think of anarchism, they generally picture young bandanna-faced white kids vandalizing Starbucks, or the structureless mess that was the Occupy movement. Those generalizations aren’t fair, but they’re not undeserved, either. Such are the risks of counterculture.

The Self-Made Man: Matt Mullenweg

Since what I’m doing here for TSB could be considered blogging, it makes sense to put Matt Mullenweg?the co-founder of WordPress?in the hot seat, so to speak, as this week’s Self Made Man.

Awesome Men Throughout History: Allen Allensworth

We’ve profiled some pretty amazing people here at Awesome Men Throughout History, but I don’t think any of them ever founded their own town, so it’s high time we shed some much-needed light on Lt. Col. Allen Allensworth, founder of Allensworth, CA, now known as the Colonel Allensworth State Historic Park.

The Self-Made Man: Larry Levitsky

Publishing really is a remarkable business. For one thing, it’s been ?dying? for at least 20 years now, but no matter how many pearl-clutching op-eds are written about this year being the end of print media, it still keeps lurching forward, bleeding out books and magazines.