Asymptosis

Asymptosis is, for the moment at least, just me: Steve Roth.

I started my professional life in book and magazine publishing. I was editor of Personal Publishing for several years, and a contributor and contributing editor to Macworld, Small Press and several others for several more. I’ve written, edited, produced and/or packaged more than a dozen books, some in multiple editions and languages, with more than a million copies in print overall.

I’ve been an equity partner and/or principal in several successful startups running to tens of millions of dollars, mostly in the fields of publishing and high-tech, and I spent nine years as CEO of Thunder Lizard Productions.

My partner and I sold TLP in 2000. You can read some about that here. Since then I’ve been pursuing assorted interests — occasionally remunerative but usually not — that generally involve acquiring graduate-school education and skills without the encumbrances of graduate school.

I indulged the passion exemplified in my undergrad major (“Literature, Theory and Criticism”) by going deep in the Shakespeare scholarship dodge. You can see some of my published work at princehamlet.com.

Another research passion, most frequently revealed here, is for politics and economics. Others include evolutionary psychology and evolution in general, constitutional law, and cooking.

I also have the almost unlimited pleasure of spending time with my two teenage daughters–who are, quite simply, a laff riot.