Disclosure Stuff

This blog is not primarily financially driven. I established here’s ago when I bought the url website for my name and GoDaddy sold me a website with it. So I needed to post something. Over the years is has evolved to a community where I learn from you, really interesting and smart readers. One of those smart surfers is Tim Ferris. Tim Ferriss has been listed as one of Fast Company’s “Most Innovative Business People” and one of Fortune’s “40 under 40.” He is an early-stage technology investor/advisor (Uber, Facebook, Shopify, Duolingo, Alibaba, and the author of five #1 New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestsellers, I’ve taken the liberty of restating his awesome blog and website disclosures below, with his encouragement.

Beginning December 1, 2009, the FTC requires bloggers to disclose whenever there could be hidden interests or unspoken biases related to recommendations.  So, with a nod top Tim, here goes…

First, the obvious: I am a tech investor and advisor.

Second, the less obvious: Per the FTC rules, if I interview someone and they grab the bill for lunch, I would need to disclose this. Ditto if I use an Amazon link that gets me 8 cents instead of an Amazon link that gets me 0 cents. If someone gives me a comfy t-shirt with a logo and I wear it in a photo, same deal. Disclaimers all over the place. This would be tedious for me and even more tedious for readers. But rules is rules. To cover myself and preserve your reading experience, please assume that, for every link and product I use, the following all hold true:

Please feel free to use the text and images on this page with proper attribution. There is no reason why each blogger should have to reinvent the wheel.

(Illustrations courtesy of Louis Gray and Jeannine Schafer)