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The power of community
Nick Grossman – Mar 8, 2019
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 things. Community is about helping people feel connected and aligned. When people are connected , they [...] Read more
Free Solo (Movie Review)
Albert Wenger – Mar 8, 2019
Earlier this week I went to see Free Solo, which documents Alex Honnold’s ascent of El Capitan, with our son Michael. After being on the edge of our seats for most of the movie, we came away with sweaty hands [...] Read more
The Business Model Pivot
Fred Wilson – Mar 7, 2019
I saw Zuck’s post on pivoting to private interactions from public posts yesterday and I had a flashback to Bill Gates’s Internet Tidal Wave memo to his company almost twenty-five years ago. I have always seen a lot of Gates [...] Read more
The value of looking up
Bethany Crystal – Mar 7, 2019
Photographer Eric Pickersgill photoshopped phones out of people’s hands in photos to show how addicted we have become (via https://www.boredpanda.com/portraits-holding-devices-removed-eric-pickersgill/) On mornings when I feel like I’m slipping too much into “the big-city grind,” I like to take a completely [...] Read more
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
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