Writing

With the new version of Android comes intelligence around mobile notifications. If you tend to swipe away notifications from a particular app, Android eventually asks you this: I told Android to keep showing these project updates to me even though [...]  Read more

Our portfolio company Stash , which offers a super simple mobile investing app and has roughly 2.5mm users, did some analysis on male and female users to see if there was a material difference in risk tolerance between men and [...]  Read more

Conventional wisdom is that deleting old emails regularly is the best way to avoid issues down the road. My experience has been different. I’ve been involved in a few legal matters over the years where email discovery has been done. [...]  Read more

Over the past few weeks, I have varied up my computing habits a bit.  For a laptop, I have been using a Pixelbook , and I have also been spending more timing using an iPad Pro for work. What I [...]  Read more

Growing up, I always enjoyed the up and down patterns of work and play. Back to school in the fall, a solid winter break, back to school for winter and spring, and then a long summer break. Just as you [...]  Read more

Today is Labor Day in the US. It is a day to celebrate labor, the union movement, and the role of the worker in our economy and our society. I have always struggled with the idea that labor and capital [...]  Read more

The Economist has a cover story this week called Peak Valley . The article suggests that Silicon Valley’s lead as a hub for innovation has peaked and other regions are rising. It ends with the concern that innovation more broadly [...]  Read more