Steve Hammer on April 15th, 2010

Just a bit ago I was named General Manager of Stir.com.  It has been an interesting transition to stay the least.   We’ve always had a very open environment and generally had some great team chemistry.  We had a nice set of principles that everyone agreed with, and we all had a shared vision of creating [...]

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Steve Hammer on October 31st, 2009

It feels strangely good to get back to writing again.  I’ve been oddly silent for a few months, for a reason that I’m about to explain.  During this time I learned a lesson about what really drives me to do this, and how hard it is not to write.
The reason I’ve had to be silent [...]

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Steve Hammer on September 16th, 2008

Today I had lunch in a restaurant that shall remain nameless, to protect the potentially innocent.  At the time, a shrimp quesadilla seemed like a good idea.  However, it really didn’t seem all that clever a few hours later when my stomach began churning.  It started off innocently enough, but grew to a loud clatter [...]

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