Last week, having been inspired by (of all things) this awesome and awful samsung gear commercial, i ordered a Pebble smartwatch. I can’t...
“It is trust, more than money, that makes the world go round.” — Joseph Stiglitz, In No One We Trust The week before last, I...
A few weeks ago, Brian asked Brittany and me: “do you think it’s better to build your career around skills or around ideas?”...
Last night, I had the pleasure of joining Meetup.com GC David Pashman‘s NYU Law class on Internet and Business Law for Technology Companies as...
At USV, we talk a lot about how the landscape is changing, as more entrepreneurs and investors get behind the idea of building networks around...
Saying no to things is something I’ve always been bad at. I have always been (and to some extent, have prided myself on being) more of a...
Andy and I were talking yesterday about how both of us really struggle on email, especially during busy weeks when we’re really focused on...
There are a lot of great insights in Benedict Evans’ most recent report. It’s worth a read. One that stood out to me is this one: Because...
I’ve been a remote or semi-remote worker for a long time now. Which has a boatload of pros (flexibility) as well as cons (distance from “the...
I’ve been a remote or semi-remote worker for a long time now. Which has a boatload of pros (flexibility) as well as cons (distance from...
It’s fascinating to watch the process of business models exploding. What apple did yesterday in announcing free OSX and free iWork apps is a...
Last week, I traveled to SF, and ended up on a flight with no internet (aaaaaaagh!). And, of course, I forgot to bring the book I’m currently...
I’ve been thinking a lot about this idea of being organized vs. being disciplined. It’s easy to want to “get organized”...
It seems like everywhere I look right now, people are playing hardball. I.e., taking tough / extreme positions and sticking to them ferociously. The...
As the federal government shuts down, there is no shortage of predictions about how it will shake out, when it will end, and who will take the blame...
Here’s a plug for Anthony Townsend‘s new book, Smart Cities (which I haven’t read yet but have discussed with him throughout the...
Janelle Orsi has an article in Shareable that should be of interest for anyone following the “sharing economy” (or “peer...
I’m here today at the Adaptive Metropolis conference at UC Berkeley, organized by ReBar. Which, as I suspected it would be, is awesome. The premise...
I’m writing this from a plane en route to Berkeley for what should be an awesome conference: Adaptive Metropolis: User Generated Urbanism. Among the...