The Memoir
CALL ME ISHMAEL
by Levi Asher on Tuesday, December 22, 2009 12:42 am
(This is chapter 46, the final chapter of the first draft of my memoir of the Internet industry, 1993-2003.)
Do we search out the bottom, those of us who eventually find ourselves hitting it? I think we must. But I'd had enough of trouble and poverty by the summer of 2003. And I didn't know anymore how to get back to where I once had been.
SINGLE POINT OF FAILURE
by Levi Asher on Wednesday, December 16, 2009 01:36 am
(This is chapter 45, the next-to-last chapter of my ongoing memoir of the Internet industry.)
One evening in early January 2003 I showed up at Hendriks Institute's main campus in Westbury, Long Island to begin teaching a course called Relational Database Programming With Oracle and SQL.
HOW TO GO BROKE
by Levi Asher on Wednesday, December 9, 2009 01:00 pm
(This is chapter 44 of 46 of my ongoing memoir of the Internet industry.)
After my job at ArtAndCulture.com collapsed, I began going broke.
LUCKY GUY
by Levi Asher on Thursday, December 3, 2009 12:31 am
(This is chapter 43 of my ongoing memoir of the Internet industry. This draft will be completed when chapter 46 is posted in three weeks.)
On one of the first warm springtime days of 2002 in New York City, I suddenly found myself accepting an unexpectedly cool and excellent new job.
POETRY AND POLITICS
by Levi Asher on Tuesday, November 24, 2009 11:14 pm
(This is chapter 42 of my ongoing memoir of the Internet industry.)
Heavy emotions hung in the air around New York City in early 2002.
TUESDAY
by Levi Asher on Tuesday, November 10, 2009 11:38 pm
(This is chapter 40 of my ongoing memoir of the Internet industry. An earlier version of this chapter was published on this site in March 2003 as "A Story Without a Moral, A Day in Dust".)
FALLING OUT
by Levi Asher on Wednesday, November 4, 2009 12:44 am
(This is chapter 39 of my ongoing memoir of the Internet industry).
By the spring of 2001 I began to face the fact that I was probably going to lose my job at iVillage.
VERSION 2.0
by Levi Asher on Tuesday, October 27, 2009 11:40 pm
(This is chapter 38 of my ongoing memoir of the Internet industry.)
Every once in a while you get a new boss you just know you're not going to get along with. This happened to me in late 2000 after a series of layoffs and restructurings at iVillage.com.
Third-Quarter Interlude: Bringing It Home
by Levi Asher on Friday, October 23, 2009 01:16 am
The memoir I've been writing is an honest account of one part of my life: the work I do. Because this is a story taking place in a modern professional workplace, I like to compare it to other recent books, movies, TV shows and plays that cover similar territory, like the great TV series "The Office", the movie "Office Space", Joshua Ferris's "Then We Came To The End", Ed Park's "Personal Days", Douglas Coupland's "Microserfs", Michael Wolff's "Burn Rate", Mike Daisey's "21 Dog Years".
