Meet My Longtime Friend And Kick Boxing Trainer Jason Calacanis
April 28, 2007
Most of my readers are completely unaware that Jason Calacanis and I are life long buds.
We met in Brooklyn, Jason’s native land, in 1987 at a World Poker Tour tournament. Most people know Jason as the former GM of Netscape, but he’s also known by the “in crowd” as a former Editor of Silicon Alley Reporter.
(By the way, Netscape is pure genius.)
These days Jason is busy writing ground-breaking pieces on his blog like this one on linkbaiting, probably the most important piece ever to be written on the topic and sure to go down in history as the missing link in the quest for blog supremacy.
He does it all with his trusty bulldog Toro by his side.
It was last week that cemented Jason as the most forward looking, deep thinker on the web of our time. We were sparring in the ring and as he threw a blistering fast roundhouse that nearly took off my head, he mentioned his latest post on Fatblogging.
The depth of consideration of the major issues facing humanity in that post alone speaks volumes about my friend’s uncanny ability to take normally mundane issues and put them on a world stage to blow people’s minds around the globe.
Laying on my back in the ring I looked up at Jason and thought “He would make an incredible Ambassador to Ecuador if it weren’t for his penchant for double-dipping at parties!”
After fully regaining my wits after the third knockout of the day (I’m sure Jason didn’t see me struggling with my mouthpiece and looking in the other direction when he landed what could only be called the most perfect uppercut ever thrown) I realized that I was possibly the luckiest guy on Earth to have Jason Calacanis as a friend, mentor, and AA sponsor.
I know this weekend I will raise a glass to the man, the legend, the only person to ever win back-to-back World Bear Wrestling championships.
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Meet My Longtime Friend And Kick Boxing Trainer Jason Calacanis…
Deeply personal blog entry about my friend Jason Calacanis, former GM of Netscape….
Meet My Longtime Friend And Kick Boxing Trainer Jason Calacanis…
A slightly personal reflection on my long time friendship with the former GM of Netscape….
Hi Jack,
I have just finish the black book and kinda putting the pieces together. Will have to read a few more times and let it sink in.
I got a question here, I was told to go to http://www.pingomatic.com to ping after every post. Is is ok if you explain how this site works?
Terry
After you finish a post, copy the URL of the post and go to Pingomatic and paste it there.
Once you submit it will ping many of the major ping services so you only have to go to that one place each time.
If you use Wordpress you can dump all the ping services into your Update Pinger area and it will happen every time you post automatically.
To get a good ping list for this go to http://seofeed.com and click on Ping List in the navigation area.
Thanks Jack. I’ll go check that site out.
Terry
Wow, never knew he was into kick boxing. Next time he and I go to the moon, I will have to ask him for some kickboxing tips…
You are hysterical Jack!
Michelle,
I am glad a couple people got it. I was wondering if anyone was going to question it and call me out on the World Bear Wrestling thing.
He never did win that. I made it up.