Stories from my career at MarketWatch and musings on the media business. I recall dinner with former colleagues, share anecdotes about forecasting and describe the “Two Second Test” for news websites.
After using GPT-5 to create category introductions for my website I got to thinking about the categories themselves. With over 9,800 blog posts spanning 20+ years it is daunting to figure out an approach to categories. It is especially daunting to approach them in a way that …
Keep reading · 3 minutes: Blog Categories via LLMThis chart of SPSC performance since IPO is amazing. Compared to the high growth tech giants — outperforms AMZN, MSFT, GOOG, AAPL. 🤩
Had a super evening with great MarketWatch friends. It has been decades since we worked together, but the stories are were as fresh as ever. Nick, Anna, Jim, Scott – you are all amazing! 🤩🥰
We all try to predict the future. Particularly in business, sports, finance, etc. I like to recall a story that Larry Kramer, CEO of MarketWatch, shared with me a long time ago. Larry had spent a lot of time in finance, but before that had a deep background in sports. Sports …
Keep reading · 2 minutes: Random ForecastsI spent a lot of my career in media and publishing on the web. During that time one of the things that I came to appreciate more completely was the unique journalistic voice that news organizations have. Being responsible for the websites of a number of these sites, I felt it was …
Keep reading · 2 minutes: Two Second TestOn this day, 23 years ago, we launched BigCharts.com. The time before and after that was fun, stressful, and filled with unknowns. It was a great ride. One of the defining experiences of my life. I love that the site is still around, serving charts for all that want! I’m sure …
Keep reading · 2 minutes: Happy 23rd Birthday BigCharts!The last time I saw my friend David Hussman we met at Red Wagon Pizza and enjoyed an extended evening of pepperoni pizza and several glasses of a delicious red wine. We initially sat inside to avoid some scattered rain, but then transitioned outside to enjoy a gorgeous evening, …
Keep reading · 3 minutes: Goodbye to my friend, David HussmanWas great to catch up today with friends and MarketWatch colleagues Anna Klombies and Jim Bernard.
Playing The .com Edition of Monopoly, of course. 😜 Hilarious tiles. Game starts with $1.5 billion per player. 💸 CBS MarketWatch has a tile, right next to Sun Microsystems!
Google and Amazon are not on The .com Edition Monopoly board. 🤷♂️
I had to buy Sun Microsystems in .com Monopoly. 💙
56k modem for the win! .com Monopoly. 😊
I’ve been cleaning through old files and found the copy of the April 30, 1999 issue of the Star Tribune that I had saved with the article about BigCharts being acquired by CBS MarketWatch. I couldn’t just recycle this before running it through the scanner. Phil sure had some hair …
Keep reading · 1 minute: Star Tribune in April 1999 on BigCharts Acquisition