Recently, for my magic doc [link to website + trailer], we got into our first film festival, Nashville -- so one of my director friends asked me, "So, have you hired a PR agency yet?" As a first-time director, this thought had not occurred to me so I said, "No, do you have any recommendations?"
...Yesterday, my friend, Manish Patel and I, did a careers in technology panel at a L.A. based charter school. Quick background on them -- the Alliance College Ready Public Schools are a set of charter schools founded several years ago -- some of their backers include the Gates Foundation, the...
Someone told me something a few months ago and my first thought when I read it was, "That's a crazy way to do business." My instincts told me one thing -- and after the situation developed a little more, my instincts proved me correct. The caveat I should throw in in all this, is that within this...
Today we launched the website + trailer to my new film "The Magic Life" [link] -- it's a feature-length documentary that follows three aspiring magicians trying to turn their passion into their career. I'll detail a little backstory on the film itself, talk about the website + trailer, and then...
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Bridesmaids
Laugh out loud funny. One of the best and funniest movies I've seen in years -- I hope it gets multiple Oscar noms because it's so well deserved.
Elite Squad: The Enemy Within [link to trailer]
This might have been the best film I saw all year and maybe...
Following my blog post, "Product: Quality Improvements vs. New Features" [link], a friend and former Google colleague of mine wrote in the following:
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Nelson, thanks for writing this post. As a PM, I've often struggled with quality improvements vs. new features. Using a notion of value is...