Anticipating egg on my face, and apologizing in advance
Two weeks ago we had fully vetted a potential cooking tool Grommet and had it scheduled to run imminently. We used the product multiple times. We…
Spiking the football, if I could
You know those guys who spike the football in the end zone and violently fist pump the air? Making no secret of their elation? And…
Claire goes 0 to 60 on video
I was so delighted to see this final (for now) video from our recently departed intern Claire Lorman. She’s headed back to Savannah College of Art…
What it is REALLY like to get your picture in The New York Times
First off let me state clearly that we were over-the-moon-happy with Amy Wallace’s feature story on Daily Grommet in The New York Times Sunday Business section…
Time Magazine says this is “Jules Pieri Unfiltered”
Time Magazine made a big commitment to Detroit in opening a bureau in the Motor City focussed on innovation and revival. They asked me to post…
My (funnier) twin separated at birth
Illustrator, designer and artist Maira Kalman has long been a heroine of mine. If you have kids you might recognize her children’s books like Max Makes…
Grommets in the Wild
I’m writing this from the window of a Peet’s in downtown San Francisco. I have been here for a week of quasi-vacation. Any entrepreneur knows what…
My Rambler surprised me
My family is driving two used cars. One is a ten-year-old “Grandpa Car” that was purchased because it is reported to be the safest vehicle for…
Hat Trick: Three articles that were powerful enough to distract me from jumping in the lake on a hot holiday weekend
I did an enormous amount of lake-side book and magazine reading over the holiday weekend. Below are the three articles that stood the “24-hours-later-and-I-still-remember-them” test of…
Rob Walker strikes again…Where do gadgets really come from?
Rob Walker writes the “Consumed” column in the Sunday NYT magazine. Partly in response to the terrible string of suicides at the Foxconn facility in China,…
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