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Four changes to pricing and packaging grew WP Engine from $1 million to $5 million in a single year. No new product, no new market, no new funding — just four changes to what the company already had. That is a multiplier: a place where a small change produces an outsized, durable gain in growth and profit through a mechanism you can understand and repeat, rather than a stroke of luck you can only envy.

One of the greatest writers in genre (and literary fiction) of the twentieth century, Gene Wolfe was a national treasure who produced the finest and most significant body of short fiction in the SF and fantasy field over the last fifty years. The Best of Gene Wolfe is an amazing retrospective collection of his short fiction, selected by Wolfe himself.

Becky and Jamie are an ordinary hard-working couple trapped in the daily grind, dreaming of an easier life. On one of their rare vacations, they meet Phil and Mel, a wealthy couple who seem to have it all—they're fun, well-traveled, and very generous with their money. But they are also very, very dangerous. Phil and Mel are not who they say they are, and this is no random vacation friendship. 

Yearbook is a collection of true stories that I desperately hope are just funny at worst, and life-changingly amazing at best. (I understand that it's likely the former, which is a fancy 'book' way of saying 'the first one.') I talk about my grandparents, doing stand-up comedy as a teenager, bar mitzvahs and Jewish summer camp, and tell way more stories about doing drugs than my mother would like. I also talk about some of my adventures in Los Angeles, and surely say things about other famous people that will create a wildly awkward conversation for me at a party one day. 

If you are reading this, you are probably struggling to feed yourself and your family. Don't panic. I am here to help. When you have a few spare minutes, grab a brew, take a deep breath, put your feet up, and start listening....