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What decentralization is good for (part 3): growth
Nick Grossman – Mar 6, 2019
Picking back up the series on what decentralization is good for (part 1 , part 2 ), today I want to focus on one of the most exciting aspects of decentralization: growth. In this case, when I say “decentralized”, what [...] Read more
Golden Handcuffs
Fred Wilson – Mar 6, 2019
Daniel Olshansky asked me this question on Twitter: @fredwilson Have you ever written about how to avoid "rest and vest" culture where there are employees who want to leave a company but are held down by golden handcuffs?— Daniel Olshansky [...] Read more
Golden Handcuffs
Fred Wilson – Mar 6, 2019
Daniel Olshansky asked me this question on Twitter: @fredwilson Have you ever written about how to avoid "rest and vest" culture where there are employees who want to leave a company but are held down by golden handcuffs? — Daniel [...] Read more
Uncertainty Wednesday: The Base Rate Fallacy and Why Hiring is Hard
Albert Wenger – Mar 6, 2019
Last Uncertainty Wednesday considered how imperfect correlation is related to the narrative fallacy which in turn underlies observations such as the extravagant headquarters effect. Today I will examine why hiring is so ridiculously hard and even organizations which are very [...] Read more
Being Wrong
Fred Wilson – Mar 5, 2019
Howard has a great (and short!) post on how blogging publicly gives you a timeline on how you were thinking at a given time. He’s right, it is awesome to be able to go back and see what you were [...] Read more
Getting Credit
Fred Wilson – Mar 4, 2019
Last night CBS 60 Minutes aired a piece about the gender gap in tech and left out a number of important efforts to close the gap. My friend Rob Underwood tweeted this out about that piece: I admire work of [...] Read more
Changing your life
Nick Grossman – Mar 4, 2019
Just about 10 years ago, I had a migraine that lasted two weeks. I have never been in such pain; even an ER visit and a morphine drip didn’t touch it. Then, 6 months later, I had a stomach pain [...] Read more
World After Capital: Psychological Freedom (Intro)
Albert Wenger – Mar 4, 2019
NOTE: This is part of a series of excerpts from my book World After Capital. Today’s post introduces the concept of psychological freedom, which is crucial for living in a world that is information super saturated. Imagine you live in [...] Read more
The life and death of great plumeria trees
Bethany Crystal – Mar 4, 2019
For me, springtime doesn’t begin with the equinox on March 20. It starts much sooner, on the very first weekend in March, with a somewhat unlikely event: The Philadelphia Flower Show. Every year since 1829, florists and horticulturalists alike descend [...] Read more