Writing

Although I am an avid Android fan/user, I am equally fond of Apple’s Airpods. I have used the original and V2 Airpods with great success over the last few years and can’t imagine using anything else to pair with my [...]  Read more

Our portfolio company Duolingo was the subject of a funny skit on SNL a few weeks ago. Read more

Here’s a Kickstarter for all of you coffee lovers: Read more

Often art can expose issues more clearly than other mediums. A show opened at The Shed this week called Manual Override . It is about the increasing power of technology in our lives and our inability to control it. There [...]  Read more

This is a week full of philanthropy for The Gotham Gal and me. We are attending two fundraisers for organizations we support and throwing one for an organization we started. I woke up thinking about giving back and how important [...]  Read more

I was talking to a friend today about company values and how important they are but also how lame so many of them are. I told him that some of my favorite company values come from our former portfolio company [...]  Read more

We had eight glorious years with Dori, our beloved Goldendoodle. Just seeing her in the street put a smile on people’s face. She was alway up for a pet from random strangers and could be trusted with the youngest of [...]  Read more

It is a common idea that we should learn from our mistakes. In practice though I see many people making the same mistakes repeatedly. I myself have found that it often takes me making the same mistake at least twice [...]  Read more