Nathan Lustig

There are two Americas: those with skills and those without.  And by skills, I don’t mean those who have a college degree: I see tons of college grads looking for work who don’t really have any skills.  If you want to be successful in our economy, you must be creative, innovative, hard working and on [...]

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I went to the mall for the first time in awhile yesterday to pick up a few things I needed for the office.  I was immediately struck by how different the employees looked.  Walking around, I hardly saw the stereotypical sullen teenagers working at the cell phone kiosks, food courts and clothing stores.  The foodcourt [...]

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UPDATE: Shortly after I wrote this post, I got a follow up email from a member of Sen. Feingold’s staff with the correct email response.  The next day, I got a phone call from a different member of the staff apologizing and asking if they could do anything else to help me and yesterday, I [...]

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From time to time, Thomas Friedman writes something that has the power to change lives.  So far, Friedman’s The World Is Flat has had the greatest impact on me, as it inspired my business partner, Jesse Davis, to start work on our startup, Entruset.  The ideas in his book are still reverberating through our company [...]

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I think one of the most interesting stories of the 2010s will be whether my generation puts an end to “gotcha journalism” or makes the problem even worse than it is today. The classic definition of gotcha journalism usually refers to an interview style where the interviewer tries to trap the interviewee into saying something [...]

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It stared with leaders like Hugo Chavez, Mahmood Ahamdinejad and Saddam Hussein who wear their anti-Americanism as a badge of honor.  Next, it was the developing countries who generally liked the US but felt they were not getting a fair shake.  Next was Russia and India.  Then came China, America’s largest trading partner and largest [...]

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