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. I also have an M.A. from NYU.

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.