Writing

Let’s say you are going camping and want to bring a chess set. This cool chess set and board would be ideal. Chess is a great game and this is a great way to play it. I backed it when [...]  Read more

It’s my 59th birthday today. 59 is a nice number. It’s a prime number. I kicked off the day by getting a cup of coffee and sitting on the beach and reflecting on things. I am taking the day off [...]  Read more

We use Sunpower solar panels and inverters and they have this cool dashboard that shows us a number of interesting things. This is the percentage of power we are drawing from our solar panels vs the grid since May 1st: [...]  Read more

There is a lot of negativity around NYC right now. Bloggers writing sensational headlines. That sort of thing. It makes me want to go out and buy a ton of NYC stock right now. It is certainly the case that [...]  Read more

I woke up to a dream this morning where I was playing a game that was very similar to Turntable.fm , a failed effort to create a social music experience that had a moment back in 2011 and that I [...]  Read more

As is my weekly routine, I went onto Kickstarter and backed a bunch of projects this morning. One of them was Ghost Pacer , a holographic running partner. Ghost Pacer was created by AbdurRahman Bhatti , an “All-state cross country [...]  Read more

Our portfolio company Quizlet put out a “State of Remote Learning Report ” this week based on what they are seeing across their global learning platform during the pandemic. Quizlet wrote a blog post about it as well. There are [...]  Read more

I have been meaning to write a blog post about Marxism following an exchange in the comments to one of my posts about Trump’s dictatorial tendencies . Essentially the thrust of the comment was that Marxism is a bigger threat [...]  Read more