7 years ago on Martin Luther King Jr’s birthday, I wrote this post about the ideas in his Letter from a Birmingham Jail. Today I went back to...
Today I’m finally switching off of Capital One because of their broken integration with Plaid. For those who don’t know, Plaid is a...
My son played in a baseball tournament this weekend. His team did well, and finished as the runner-up. The team that beat them in the finals played...
Community is a funny thing. It can sound like a fluffy word or concept, but it’s actually really powerful. Maybe more powerful than many...
I was at an event last night, where the moderator, Preeti Varathan from QZ observed that there seemed to be a lot of cynicism in the blockchain /...
I’ve been doing more public speaking recently, and finally assembled videos into a single place: As I look at that list, I realize that...
I had an interesting experience today. As I was in the air on my way to San Francisco, I got a text from my Airbnb host saying that they had made a...
I’ve been struck recently by the power and surprise of unintended consequences. For example, a recent Slate article digs into flip side of the...
Yesterday at one of our bi-monthly team deep dives at USV, we got into the conversation of essentially “Big Innovation” vs. “Small...
If there’s one thing I’ve learned throughout my years as a human, it’s that life is hard and people need help in order to make...
For the past nine months or so, I’ve been seeing a therapist specializing in mindfulness. Perhaps the best decision I’ve ever made. One...
Over the course of the past year, I’ve been interviewed a bunch of times about the “peer economy” or the “sharing...
One way I have described myself is as a “professional amateur”. I am both deeply proud and deeply ashamed of that. Let me explain. For...
My favorite book on product development and startups is Getting Real, published in 2006 by the folks at 37signals (now Basecamp). If you...
There has been a lot of debate about how to protect Internet Freedom. Today, Senator Ted Cruz has an op-ed in the Washington Post on the subject...
I got this in the mail: It’s an ad for an extended warranty, disguised as an urgent extension of existing coverage. This makes we want to throw up...
I woke up this morning, early, to an email from my mother-in-law pointing me to this: It’s the story of a 9-year-old boy who built an arcade...
I spent the day Tuesday at the Civic Media conference, put on annually by the MIT Center for Civic Media and the Knight Foundation. In addition to...
Yesterday, the FCC met to vote on its notice of proposed rulemaking regarding the Open Internet. As was generally expected, the commission voted...
The sole is starting to peel of from my snow boots, so I’m in the market for some shoe goo or Gorilla Glue. I’d really like to get it...