Writing

I saw this image in my twitter feed this morning: Which led me to this CB Insights post from last October . You can scroll down to the bottom of that CB Insights post to see how they came up [...]  Read more

I am not opposed to regulation. I think that industry needs to play by a set of rules that ensures things like public safety, fair dealing, etc. But I do think that regulating an industry or a company too early [...]  Read more

Living in LA has always meant owning a car. I remember when the Gotham Gal was a senior in college and got a semester long internship in LA. Her first comment to me back then was “now I have to [...]  Read more

In this talk, Muneeb Ali , founder of our portfolio company Blockstack , calls the period we are in right now “the dark ages of the Internet” and explains why he sees it that way. He goes on to talk [...]  Read more

Avoidance is to be avoided. — Nick Grossman (@nickgrossman) February 22, 2018 I’m on a plane right now.  I always find plane/train rides to be some of the best times to focus and get work done.  On this trip, I [...]  Read more

This post is not about the tragedy that happened at Parkland or the gun safety debate that has been re-energized by it. Those are both worthy topics but I’m not opining on them today. I do hope that this tragedy, [...]  Read more

I listened to Sam Harris talk to Niall Ferguson yesterday on Sam’s Waking Up podcast . Niall is a historian, an author, a journalist, and an academic. He has just published a new book on a topic that is near [...]  Read more