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Posted February 6, 2014

This week’s Self Made Men returns to the tech community, but this week’s entry is more old-school than usual. We here at TSB fondly remember downloading the shareware v ...

Awesome Men Throughout History: Richard Feynman

Posted February 4, 2014

I don’t know about you guys, but I need something lighthearted after the Super Bowl. Yeesh. It was like watching the The Godfather if Denver was Sonny Corleone and Seattle wa ...

Self-Made Men: Chris Baty

Posted January 31, 2014

This week, Self Made Men looks at another non-traditional entrepreneur, specifically one who made something of himself in the non-profit sector. That’s not an easy world to w ...

Awesome Men Throughout History: Iceberg Slim

Posted January 29, 2014

This week’s Awesome Man Throughout History—author and criminal Iceberg Slim—was a pimp, which is dodgy territory for a men’s magazine. Getting laid is awesome and a ...

The Self-Made Man: John McConnell

Posted January 24, 2014

When it comes to activism, there are two kinds of people: people who bitch, and people who act. It’s one thing to complain about society on Tumblr and fall back on a list of ...

The Self-Made Man: Jonathan Kaplan

Posted January 16, 2014

One thing TSB has noticed about self-starters in the tech industry is that they tend to stay there. And why wouldn’t they? If I was one of those guys who became a multi-milli ...

Awesome Men Throughout History: Spalding Gray

Posted January 15, 2014

Modern audiences are used to seeing blends of stand up comedy, theatrical monologue, and spoken word, but there was a time when those three styles of performance were kept separate ...

The Self-Made Man: Thomas Edison

Posted January 9, 2014

Happy 2014, readers! After a two-week sabbatical to spend the holidays in an egg nog-induced stupor, I’m back to profile more entrepreneurs and talk about what made them succ ...

Awesome Men Throughout History: Johann Conrad Dippel

Posted January 7, 2014

Happy 2014, everyone! You may have noticed that I took a couple of weeks off to observe Christmas and New Year’s by drinking as much egg nog as my fragile meat body would all ...

The Self-Made Man: Chris Hardwick

Posted December 26, 2013

One of the nice things about the Internet’s effect on media is that it’s possible for a small group of people to create entire networks of blogs, podcasts, email newsle ...